Amidst This Fading Light

A Beautifully Crafted Southern Gothic TaleA SHOCKING TRAGEDY follows an unstable family to a foothill town mired in tradition and hearsay and challenges the bucolic hamlets unwritten code. Once the Pickett familys demons unmask themselves to the citizens of Germantown the isolated Piedmont villagers are forced to navigate the brutal upshots of violence and trauma. Collectively they must face hard lessons about the traumatic unpredictability of life and death that shakes it to the core. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression Daviss riveting historical fiction captures the timeless ripples of adversity that enshroud the human experience. The winner of the 2017 Southern Fried Karma novel contest provides a penetrating mosaic of one communitys struggle to cope with the unimaginable.