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“Christopher Nelson's debut volume of stories, Where You Are From, is a wonderfully gripping contemplation of how place – the North Carolina Appalachian foothills hamlet of Tucker in the shadow the Brushy Mountains – exerts a chokehold on his cherished, unforgettable characters, linked by locus and their desperate yearning to escape what they’ve paradoxically come to love and loathe in equal measure. Nelson keenly depicts the very ether they inhale, what they eat for breakfast, the thwarted dreams they ponder as the sun sets, and the words that spill from their mouths. These stories are written with a poet’s ear, the documentarian’s exhaustive gaze, and the visceral gut-attention to detail and authenticity it takes for a writer to get it right the first time.”
– Joseph Bathanti, former North Carolina Poet Laureate (2012-2014) and author of The Act of Contrition & Other Stories
About The Author
Christopher L. Nelson is a native of Lenoir, NC, and received his MFA from North Carolina State University. After teaching at a mid-western university for several years, he lives between Greensboro and Western North Carolina with his partner, two cats, and a dog.
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