Full name: The Blue Valleys: A Collection of Stories

Author: Robert Morgan Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon ISBNs: 9780743204224 0743204220

From Civil War prison camps to contemporary trailer parks, these thirteen memorable tales of life in the Southern Appalachians come alive with an array of intriguing characters -- male and female, young and elderly, learned and unlearned. The separate passions and dreams of these individuals mirror the larger cultural and historical dramas of American life, revealing the strengthening and loosening of the strong bonds of families over generations.