Fri, Sep 04
|Brooke Lanier Fine Art
Low-Stakes Book Club: "Those Who Are Dead Are Only Now Forgiven" by Ron Rash
We got a request for Southern Gothic stories, so here is a contemporary tale of two high school honors students trying to escape their impoverished small Appalachian town where the only real employment opportunity is a chicken processing plant. Scroll down for a link to the reading.
Time & Location
Sep 04, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Brooke Lanier Fine Art, 820 S 4th St, Philadelphia, PA 19147, USA
About the event
"Those Who Are Dead Are Only Now Forgiven" by Ron Rash
I highly recommend reading the rest of the book Nothing Gold Can Stay, a collection of short stories by this author set in North Carolina and Appalachia throughout different time periods and population groups.
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