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From author D. Bruce Justice
Once Upon a Night Season
ISBN 1-930252- 69-2
$14.95
Once Upon a Night Season relates an extraordinary dark six-month period in the life of an impoverished young Appalachian boy. The time is late December, 1967. The protagonist is a 12-year-old cynic named Thomas Meek.
Appalachia Under God
ISBN 1-58961-129-2
$14.95
Appalachia, Under God, the latest novel from author D. Bruce Justice, is the sequel to his first novel, Once Upon a Night Season. Again set in the fictional Appalachian community of Middlefork in eastern Kentucky, it is now the summer of 1970. Two lengthy and difficult years have elapsed since Judson Meek's passing, leaving his family, but especially his eldest child, Thomas, even more exposed to the ills of a seemingly uncaring and unsympathetic world. Although the everyday hardships incurred by the Meek family since that time mercifully have gotten no worse, Thomas' cynicism toward life and the God who controls it has increased a hundredfold. That's why when a well-to-do stranger named Harry Justice enters his life and provides him a chance for a better life, Thomas decides to buck the odds, take destiny into his own hands, and translate that opportunity into certainty.
The Unforgiving Minute
ISBN 1-58961-518-2
$14.95
Ripped from the innocence of youth in a way that only raw poverty, heart-laden loss and life in a region of the world where it seems dreams come to die can accomplish, young Thomas Meek shares his world with those who understand the essence of survival. In the '60s and while the world watched elsewhere, reality in eastern Kentucky was defined by the tradition of birth, death and the often insurmountable fate that only faith could attempt to explain. Author D. Bruce Justice masterfully opens a window; a window through which the reader may breathe the coal-tinged winds, walk the sorrow-paved roads and understand acceptance that is governed by necessity. His words will absorb your soul so deeply you may believe the window has closed behind and you have now become yet another sepia-toned prisoner where time is measured in headstones and celebrations superstitiously ignored lest they invite misery in their place. A coming of age saga...for readers of any age.
