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Wiley Cash

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Wiley Cash is theNew York Times best selling author of The Last Ballad, A Land More Kind than Home, and This Dark Road to Mercy (William Morrow/HarperCollins). He currently serves as the writer-in-residence at the University of North Carolina-Asheville and teaches in the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and their two young daughters. Please visit wileycash.com to check the scheduled events for his book tour in the fall of 2017.

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The Last Ballad LIVE! Tonight at 8:00 pm DST

Join New York Times bestselling author Wiley Cash and special musical guests Chatham Rabbits, Hunter Holmes, and Shannon Whitworth to learn the stories and hear the music behind Wiley’s novel The Last Ballad. In the summer of 1929, Gastonia, North Carolina, was the site of a violent textile strike and an incubator for some of the most influential music ever written. Join us live this evening a Read more of this blog post »

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	A Land More Kind Than Home 3.88 avg rating — 27,953 ratings — published 2012 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Dark Road to Mercy 3.79 avg rating — 9,477 ratings — published 2014 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Ballad 3.87 avg rating — 8,037 ratings — published 2017 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Ghosts Come Home 3.69 avg rating — 7,416 ratings — published 2021 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt, Wiley Cash (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.91 avg rating — 3,391 ratings — published 1901 — 314 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fate Moreland's Widow: A Novel by John Lane, Wiley Cash (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.72 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rain Barrel: The interstices of race, class, and religion in North Carolina. 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Ombres de Oak Island 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	GrenadineL A Short Story it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“There is an old saying that every story, even your own, is either happy or sad depending on where you stop telling it. I believe I'll stop telling this one here.”
― Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad

tags: murder, north-carolina, organizers, southern-fiction, southern-lit, southern-writers, union-busting, unions

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“[Death is] to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.” —THOMAS WOLFE, YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN”
― Wiley Cash, A Land More Kind Than Home

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“I’ve learned to just go ahead and take fairness out of the equation. If you do, things stand the chance of making a whole lot more sense.”
― Wiley Cash, A Land More Kind Than Home

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What shall we read in November, 2021? Books published after 1980.

Oral History, by Lee Smith

8 votes 28.6%

Simon the Fiddler, by Paulette Jiles

7 votes 25.0%

When Ghosts Come Home, by Wiley Cash

6 votes 21.4%

Bewilderness, by Karen Tucker

5 votes 17.9%

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

1 vote 3.6%

The Patron Saint of Red Chevys: A Novel, by Kay Sloan

1 vote 3.6%

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