A Place That Was Home

<p><em>A chance encounter with a forgotten childhood friend makes a woman take stock of her own shortcomings through the years.</em></p><p><em>A rural family's peaceful Sunday night is disrupted by a frightening unexpected visitor.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>A charming blind student brings a new perspective to an emotionally distant teacher.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>A woman is eyewitness to a neighbor's struggle with alcoholism and the tragic outcome of his problems.</em></p><p> </p><p>These incidents and many others are captured in <em>A Place That Was Home.</em></p><p> </p><p>Chronicling a Western North Carolina woman’s experiences from the 1960s to the present the twenty-one personal essays in A Place That Was Home vividly depict a regional world in which families live work and worship and others suffer from dire circumstances.</p><p> </p><p><em>A Place That Was Home</em> invites the reader into this compelling world.</p><p> </p>