Laura’s Reviews > Strange as This Weather Has Been > Status Update

Reading this is like so much of Appalachian lit for me. A place I've never lived, but a place whose sensibilities, phrases, relationship with place, were passed down to me by the family before me that did. There are phrases and paragraphs that literally make me stop and go, woah. Some of the culture angers me, like switch beatings on kids and such, but then, other parts feel like returning home to parts of me.