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Running on Red Dog Road : and other perils of an Appalachian childhood / Drema Hall Berkheimer.

Berkheimer, Drema Hall, (author.).

Summary:

Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia. After her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that reads like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, poetry-writing hobos, and traveling carnivals, and through it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family of saints and sinners whose lives defy the stereotypes. Just as she defies her own. Running On Red Dog Road is proof that truth is stranger than fiction, especially when it comes to life and faith in an Appalachian childhood.

Record details

ISBN: 9780310344964
ISBN: 0310344964
Physical Description: 203 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, 2016.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

1 I Come from Coal 19 -- 2 Washed in the Blood 23 -- 3 Color of India Ink 29 -- 4 Strung on Fine Wire 33 -- 5 Forcing the Forsythia 41 -- 6 A Hobo's Prayer 49 -- 7 Spirit is Willing 57 -- 8 Only the Essence Remained 63 -- 9 Mistook for a Haint 68 -- 10 Most Call Me Tolly 71 -- 11 Survivors Will Be Shot 76 -- 12 A Handful of the Mountain 80 -- 13 Lead a Horse to Water 84 -- 14 A Gizzard on My Fork 92 -- 15 Suffer the Little Children 96 -- 16 Flesh is Weak 103 -- 17 Ladies Don't Sweat 109 -- 18 Gypsy Skirt 114 -- 19 Birds of a Feather 124 -- 20 Living and the Deaf 130 -- 21 Lonely Hearts Club Man 139 -- 22 There Be Dragons 151 -- 23 Mr. Parsleys World 158 -- 24 River Ran Cold 165 -- 25 Mountain Fell Away 175 -- 26 All the Bells Were Ringing 188.