Join us as Carter reads to us from his new novel "\;The Evening Hour"\;
Most of the wealth in Dove Creek\, West Virginia\, is in the mountains—in
the coal seams that have provided generations with a way of life\, but
little prosperity. Born here and raised by his Pentecostal grandfather\,
twenty-seven-year-old Cole Freeman sidestepped work as a miner to become
an aide in a nursing home. He’s got a shock of bleached blond hair and a
gentle touch well suited to the job. He’s also a drug dealer\, reselling
the prescription pills of the older population to a younger crowd.
* a 2012 Okra Pick of SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance)*
"\;Carter Sickels is a tremendous novelist with a tremendous story to tell . . ."\; Stacey D'Erasmo\, author of The Sky Below
"\;In this stark\, beautiful debut\, Carter Sickels writes with gentle
grace and cutting honesty about characters as wounded as the condemned
land on which they live. . . "\; Aryn Kyle\, author of Boys And Girls Like You And Me and The God of Animals
"\;The Evening Hour could be a hymn sung out in a country
church\; when I finished it\, I wanted to close my eyes\, listen to its
echoes\, feel the power of its song. . ."\; Josh Weil\, author of The New Valley
"\;Newcomer Carter Sickels strips away all rural romance in The Evening Hour\, finding a deeply sympathetic hero in Cole Freeman. . ."\; Will Boast\, Outside Magazine
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