{"id":46963,"date":"2018-06-13T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=46963"},"modified":"2018-06-13T13:44:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T19:44:29","slug":"silas-house-signs-his-book-southernmost-at-square-books-wednesday-june-20-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/silas-house-signs-his-book-southernmost-at-square-books-wednesday-june-20-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Silas House Signs His Book, “Southernmost” at Square Books Wednesday, June 20, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a flood washes away much of a small community along the\u00a0<\/span>Cumberland River in Tennessee<\/strong>, Asher Sharp, an evangelical preacher\u00a0<\/span>there, starts to see his life anew. He has already lost a brother due to his\u00a0<\/span>inability to embrace his brother\u2019s coming out of the closet. <\/span><\/p>\n

Now, in the\u00a0<\/span>aftermath of the flood, he tries to offer shelter to two gay men, but he\u2019s met\u00a0<\/span>with resistance by his wife. Furious about her prejudice, Asher delivers a\u00a0<\/span>sermon where he passionately defends the right of gay people to exist\u00a0<\/span>without condemnation.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the heated battle that ensues, Asher loses his job, his wife, and custody of\u00a0<\/span>his son, Justin. As Asher worries over what will become of the boy, whom\u00a0<\/span>his wife is determined to control, he decides to kidnap Justin and take him to Key West<\/strong>, where\u00a0<\/span>he suspects that his estranged brother is now living. It\u2019s there that Asher and Justin see a new\u00a0<\/span>way of thinking and loving.<\/span><\/p>\n

Southernmost is a tender and heartbreaking novel about love and its consequences, both within\u00a0<\/span>the South and beyond. <\/span><\/p>\n

“In Silas House\u2019s moving new novel, a pastor wrestles with a crisis not\u00a0<\/span>just of faith but of all the apparent certainties of his life: a crisis of marriage, of community, of\u00a0<\/span>fatherhood. This is a novel of painful, finally revelatory awakening, of fierce love and necessary\u00a0<\/span>disaster, of the bravery required to escape the prison of our days, to make a better and more\u00a0<\/span>worthy life.\u201d \u2014 Garth Greenwell<\/strong>, author of What Belongs to You<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Silas House<\/strong> is the author of five novels, including the New York Times<\/strong> bestseller A Parchment\u00a0<\/em><\/span>of Leaves<\/em>. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times<\/em> and a former commentator for\u00a0<\/span>NPR<\/strong>‘s All Things Considered<\/em>. House is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and is\u00a0<\/span>the winner of the E. B. White Award, the Nautilus Award, the Appalachian Book of the Year, the\u00a0<\/span>Hobson Medal for Literature, and other honors.\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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