Flatland

by Scott Yarbrough

Bip's mother told him to stay away from Lilith, a local black "witch" who also provides the dry county with alcohol. That mystery is all Bip needs as impetus to seek her out. Set in a small, West Texas town, racial differences, a murder, and rites of passage thread Bip through the rough skin of the community. Richly comic and laugh out loud funny, the characters of the community stumble through racial incongruities that have slept too long to discern the fact that we are all human-whether we act that way or not.

184 pages, Paperback

First published February 12, 2008

Reviews

[Lisa Huggins · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn’t stop reading this book. I even left a gathering with friends early in order to finish it. You are drawn into the lives of those in a small West Texas community through the eyes of a young boy who demonstrates wisdom and courage beyond his years. It teaches lessons that some of us learned through similar experience; that you can’t judge character by outward appearance or assumptions made at the local barbershop and that everything changes despite our desperate attempts to remain constant. Good job Scott! 😊