The Ancient Hours

Harmony, North Carolina is a typical town--full of saints and sinners you can't tell apart...

Its history echoes with lynchings and shootings; mob violence and vigilante justice. But those are just whispers of a past lost to time. The summer of 2000 was different. Iggy in the Baptist church. Gasoline and a match. Twenty-five people dead. This, Harmony couldn't forget.

Told in a kaleidoscope of timelines and voices, Michael Bible examines every dimension of a tragic but all-too-American story in The Ancient Hours. The victims, witnesses, perpetrators, and condemned comingle and evolve as the passage of time works its way through their lives. What emerges is a fable of the American South in the highest tradition: soaring, tragic, and eternally striving for redemption.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 12/15/2020
ISBN: 9781612198644
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.40d