Wanted: Good Family

A strong and engaging novel set in 1948 Appalachia in which race and class play a large part.

Author: Joseph G. Anthony
Publisher: Bottom Dog Press
Published: 10/25/2014
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9781933964904
ISBN10: 1933964901
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | African American & Black | Historical
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Joseph G. Anthony, a New Jersey-born Kentucky author, moved in 1980 from what he considered the center of the country--Manhattan�s Upper West Side--to Hazard, Kentucky. It was a place so isolated and obscure that I at first felt as lost as a missing person. But it was, I discovered, its own country. In fiction he began to explore its beauty, its many problems, its strengths and its weaknesses. �Fiction feels and understands: racism is in your face, poverty on your back. News stories can only report.�

Anthony, an English professor for 35 years, is a hybrid-Kentuckian now. His accent might still be North Eastern, but he sees with an insider-outsider�s eye. He regularly contributes essays and poems to local periodicals and anthologies, including a poem and story in Kentucky�s Twelve Days of Christmas. He�s a Kentucky Colonel (someone once sent his name in), but he�s more Kentucky peasant. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife of 36 years, Elise Mandel, also a hybrid Kentuckian. They have three grown children. His previous books include 2 novels, Peril, Kentucky, and Pickering�s Mountain, plus 2 short story collections, Camden Blues, and Bluegrass Funeral.