About this item
A compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction, deftly weaving together local legends, magical realism, 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. Not drowned, not lost . . . simply gone. When their father disappears as well, Bert and Willet leave their childhoods behind to try and hold their broken family together. Years pass with no sign, no hope of ever finding Pansy alive, and as surely as their mother died of a broken heart, Bert and Willet can't move on.
About the Author
Tiffany Quay Tyson's novel THE PAST IS NEVER is the winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, and the Mississippi Author for Fiction selected by the Mississippi Library Association. The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance selected it as an 'Okra Pick'. Her debut novel THREE RIVERS was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and Mississippi Institute for Arts and Letters fiction award. Tyson grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, and graduated from Delta State University. She currently lives in Denver, where she serves on the faculty for Lighthouse Writers Workshop and Lighthouse Young Writers Program.
