ROUTE 12


Route 12 is two haunting novellas set in Appalachia in the seventies and eighties. These are stories of people down on their luck--a girl crippled by a bad dose of polio vaccine, a young pregnant woman with no one to turn to, a mother desperate for cash who makes a terrible mistake. In this debut book from Marietta Miles, God's country is as corrupt as any place on earth and trusting anyone is a dangerous proposition.

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