I spent the next two days in my room reading Daphne du Maurier’s masterpiece. He has also written the feature-film adaptations of his novels Desperation Road and The Fighter, titled for the screen as Rumble Through the Dark. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife and daughters.On Christmas when I was 13, a family friend gave me a copy of Rebecca. Michael Farris Smith is an award-winning writer whose novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, NPR, Southern Living, Garden & Gun, Book Riot, and numerous other outlets, and have been named Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. In only a matter of days, all of their lives will collide, and be altered, in the maelstrom of the changing world.Īt once elegiac and profound, Salvage This World journeys into the heart of a region growing darker and less forgiving, and asks how we keep going-what do we hold onto-in a land where God has fled.

Holt, Jace's father, is missing and hunted by a brutish crowd, and an old man witnesses the wrong thing in the depths of night. As she preaches and promises salvation from the light of the pulpit, in the shadows she sows the seeds of violence.Įlsewhere, Jessie and her toddler, Jace, are on the run across the Mississippi/Louisiana line, in a resentful return to her childhood home and her desolate father. In the hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of South Mississippi, where stores are closing and jobs are few, a fierce zealot has gained a foothold, capitalizing on the vulnerability of a dwindling population and a burning need for hope. There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley. (Laird Hunt, National Book Award-nominated author of Zorrie and Neverhome) In Michael Farris Smith's latest 'riveting' epic, a young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory to find the girl who may be the region's savior. Books is thrilled to welcome best selling author, Michael Farris Smith back to the store to discuss his latest novel, Salvage This World, out April 25th.

Nick by michael farris smith