<p><strong>Appalachian folklore echoes of a Biblical apocalypse life in a circus town and more come together in the debut short story collection by David E. Peeler.&nbsp;</strong>Murderous backwoods preachers pursue the innocent through the mountains of North Carolina and rabbit eared nudists serve as spiritual guides in <em>Lost and Found in Jesus</em><u>.</u> In the footsteps of writers like Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy Peeler explores our common humanity as it is revealed in characters and settings that are strange and eccentric mystical and <span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>sacred</span> often humorous and at times tragic.</p><p><br></p>