In Run, Girls: A Memoir of an Appalachian Family in Crisis, Jenny Cafaro details her life as well as her mother's and father's family situations. After her parents' relationship ran its course, Cafaro discusses the time she and her three sisters spent with her mother's...

“The truth? It don't fit clean. Life don't work like no sermon or a newspaper headline. It's messy. It bleeds.” Life does these things and more, and messy can be an understatement as The Bible Of Blackwater County, a novel by Jenny Cafaro, clearly illustrates....