Celebrated novelist Wiley Cash to speak at Asheboro library

Meet Wiley Cash, author of the acclaimed novel A Land More Kind Than Home, at 1 p.m. Monday, February 11, at the Asheboro Public Library

Cash’s appearance is sponsored by the Friends of the Library, the Sorosis Book Club and the Thursday Study Club. It’s free and the public is invited.

             

A literary thriller set in the mountains of Madison County, N.C., A Land More Kind Than Home has received all sorts of accolades since its publication in May 2012. It’s a New York Times Best Seller and Notable Book of 2012, and a Library Journal Best Book of 2012.

It was named among Best Fiction of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews  and Books-a-Million;  as the Debut of 2012 by the UK Crime Writers Association; as a Discover Great New Writers selection by Barnes and Noble; and as a Southern Bookseller’s Alliance Pick.

Cash, a North Carolina native, currently lives with his wife in West Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he studied fiction writing under Ernest J. Gaines and spent five years missing the mountains of North Carolina — a place Gaines encouraged him to write about.

Cash realized that in writing about home, he could recreate that place no matter where he lived.

In A Land More Kind Than Home, Jess Hall is a curious, adventurous boy growing up in a place where people tend to protect their own and keep old secrets buried. But when Jess’s autistic, mute brother sees something he shouldn’t, the brothers are separated and the world as Jess knows it is shattered.

The title is taken from the closing lines of Thomas Wolfe’s You Can’t Go Home Again.