Description: In essays that take wide-ranging forms--ideal for creative nonfiction classes--established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia take on the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture. They write about families left behind, hard-earned educations, selves transformed, identities chosen, and risks taken.
Review Quotes: "There's galvanizing power in the pages of Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean. The voices collected here, crying out of an Appalachia too often defined by outsiders, ask us to raise our own voices against those who would speak for us, against our whispered inner fears that our stories aren't worth telling. This is a book for our sons and daughters. I know I'll be handing it down to mine."--Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot and Long Man