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It's 1939, and the federal government has sent USDA agent Virginia Furman into the North Carolina mountains to instruct families on modernizing their homes and farms. There she meets farm wife Irenie Lambey, who is immediately drawn to the lady agent's self-possession. Already, cracks are emerging in Irenie's fragile marriage to Brodis, an ex-logger turned fundamentalist preacher: She has taken to night ramblings through the woods to escape he...

Julia's debut, Over the Plain Houses, was very big for us. It was reviewed by NPR and was one of their best books of the year (selected by Carmen Maria Machado). It went on to win the Southern Book Prize, the Thomas Wolfe Award, the 2016 Georgia Author of the Year in Literary Fiction, the IPPY Gold in Literary Fiction, and the 2018 Townsend Prize for Best Georgia Fiction. It was an NPR 2016 Best Book, Chicago Review of Books Best Fiction of th...

A spellbinding story of witchcraft and disobedience." - NPR An NPR Best Book of 2016 An NPR Book of the Year | Winner of the 2017 Southern Book Prize Indie Next Pick, May 2016 | Gold IPPY Award, Literary Fiction It's 1939, and the federal government has sent USDA agent Virginia Furman into the North Carolina mountains to instruct families on modernizing their homes and farms. There she meets farm wife Irenie Lambey, who is immediately drawn ...