📚 The Past Is Never: Softcover Book

About this product

[Skyhorse Publishing]

• *WINNER of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction**
• *WINNER of the Mississippi Author Award for Adult Fiction selected by the Mississippi Library Association**
• *WINNER of the 2019 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Fiction®**
• *®WINNER of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize @for Fiction**
• *Finalist for the 2019 Colorado Book Awards for Literary Fiction**

"An ode to William Faulkner.... As Southern as it gets." —Deep South Magazine

A compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction, deftly weaving together local legends, family secrets, and the search for a missing child.

Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it's the Devil's place, a place that's been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer days are scorching hot and they can't resist cooling off in the dark, bottomless water. Until the day six year old Pansy vanishes.