Appalachian Justice

<p>Billy May Platte is a half Irish half Cherokee Appalachian woman who learned the hard way that 1940s West Virginia was no place to be different.</p><p>As Billy May explains “We was sheltered in them hills.  We didn’t know much of nothin’ about life outside of them mountains.  I did not know the word lesbian; to us gay meant havin’ fun and queer meant somethin’ strange.”</p><p>In 1945 when Billy May was fourteen years old and orphaned three local boys witnessed an incident in which Billy May’s sexuality was called into question. Determined to teach her a lesson she would never forget they orchestrated a brutal attack that changed the dynamics of the tiny coal mining village of Cedar Hollow West Virginia forever.</p><p>Global Ebook Gold Medal Winner in 2013 a finalist for the University of North Carolina-Wilmington’s Synergy Program in 2013 and voted Sapphic Readers Book Club Book of the Year in 2011 (under a different imprint) Appalachian Justice is a work of southern fiction that delves into social issues such as poverty domestic violence misogyny and sexual orientation. Ultimately however Appalachian Justice delivers a message of hope.</p>