Patsy Shook lives in Western North Carolina. She is the author of essays, short stories, and a newspaper column. At age eighty, this is her first novel, but she says it is not the last. She has a lifetime of stories just itching to be told.

Patsy Shook lives in Western North Carolina. She is the author of essays, short stories, and a newspaper column. At age eighty, this is her first novel, but she says it is not the last. She has a lifetime of stories just itching to be told.