Posted on Oct 4, 2023
For Alix E. Harrow, writing 'Starling House' meant telling a new story of Kentucky
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In Eden, Kentucky, the air is thick with dust.
The dying coal town is the fictional setting of Alix E. Harrow's "Starling House," and the smog of fading power and bad luck is enough to suffocate its residents, most of whom live in abject poverty.
For Harrow, writing a book about Kentucky was a long time coming.
"This is the first book that I set fully in, like committed to writing about Kentucky," Harrow says. "One of the reasons that I had found that difficult to do before is because I find it to be a place of very mixed experiences that I love very, very, very much, and which has just an incredible violence and terror to it."
In Eden, Kentucky, the air is thick with dust.
The dying coal town is the fictional setting of Alix E. Harrow's "Starling House," and the smog of fading power and bad luck is enough to suffocate its residents, most of whom live in abject poverty.
For Harrow, writing a book about Kentucky was a long time coming.
"This is the first book that I set fully in, like committed to writing about Kentucky," Harrow says. "One of the reasons that I had found that difficult to do before is because I find it to be a place of very mixed experiences that I love very, very, very much, and which has just an incredible violence and terror to it."
For Alix E. Harrow, writing 'Starling House' meant telling a new story of Kentucky
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