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Apple & Palm

by Patricia Henley

Lives in a changing Appalachian town

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Lives in a changing Appalachian town

Set in Whistle Pig, a mountain town whose landscape suggests permanence, these linked stories trace changes within families and relationships. Their situations range from DJ Diggs’s return from Chicago after a fire at a Pride Prom to a centenarian’s efforts to reshape her household and an elderly pair revisiting their intimacy. Together, the stories bring aging, memory, and desire into view through lives at different stages, while the contrast between the town’s apparent stillness and its residents’ unsettled circumstances gives the collection a shared frame.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in linked short-story collections and family relationships.
  • Those seeking fiction that explores aging, memory, and desire.
  • Readers drawn to Appalachian settings and stories about changing lives.

Themes

AgingMemoryDesire and intimacyFamily relationshipsChange and homecoming

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Book overview

The town of Whistle Pig, like the mountains that surround it, can appear unchanging, as immutable as geography. The lives of the characters in the linked stories in Patricia Henley's Apple & Palm contrast with that predictability. After vowing he'd never go home to Appalachia, DJ Diggs returns from Chicago to his family of origin after a Pride Prom fire that leaves his niece disfigured; Roxy, a centenarian, convinces her grandson's pregnant wife to move into the artist's co-op; Ham Zebrak and Adele Pratt, an elderly pair, spend the night together trying to stir up the ghost of sexual chemistry. Apple & Palm is a provocative close-up examination of aging, memory, and desire.

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