Rain is a young woman under the influence of a charismatic drifter named Wolf and his other “wife,” Winter. Through months of wandering homeless through the cities, small towns, and landscape of Appalachia, the trio have grown into a kind of desperate family, a family driven by exploitation and abuse. A family that Rain must escape.
When she meets Stratton Bryant, a widower living alone in an old east Tennessee farmhouse, Rain is given the chance to see a bigger world and find herself a place within it. But Wolf will not let her part easily. When he demands loyalty and obedience, the only way out is through an episode of violence that will leave everyone involved permanently damaged.
A harrowing story of choice and sacrifice, Charles Dodd White’s In the House of Wilderness is a novel about the modern South and how we fight through hardship and grief to find a way home.

In the House of Wilderness: A Novel

White, Charles Dodd

Literature & Fiction

SWALLOW PRESS+

<div> A chilling, timely reminder of the moral and human costs of racial hatred. What happens when a delusional white supremacist and his army of followers decide to create a racially pure "Little Europe" within a rural Tennessee community? As the town's residents grapple with their new reality, minor skirmishes escalate and dirty politics, scandals, and a cataclysmic chain of violence follows. In this uncanny reflection of our time, award-winning novelist Charles Dodd White asks whether Americans can save themselves from their worst impulses and considers the consequences when this salvation comes too late. </div>

How Fire Runs: A Novel

Genre Fiction

In turbulent times, what we need is possibility, and in this rich gathering of diverse voices, Watts and Smith give us just that. A girl molds clay against her deaf brother�s ears to heal him. A gay man finds his Appalachian clan in a dark world. These are stories and essays about the blues, about poverty, about families lost and made. Unbroken Circle is about broken and unbroken lives, and ultimately, hope. �Karen Salyer McElmurray, author of Surrendered Child..................... One of the goals of Unbroken Circle is to subvert stereotypes�to show that Southern people are not simply shoeless, rural white people. We are a people as varied as the Southern landscape, from the mountains of Appalachia to the deltas of Mississippi to the skyscrapers of Atlanta. We are black, white, Latino, Native American, Middle Eastern, Asian, and multiracial. We are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Wiccan, atheist and agnostic. We are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, straight, and questioning. We are urban and rural, old and young, poor and rich, and all points in between. We are all these things, plus more that don�t fit into neat categories. The voices in this collection represent some of the diverse voices of our region, just a few spoonfuls from the giant pot of gumbo that makes up our region. �Julia Watts (Introduction)

Unbroken Circle: Stories of Cultural Diversity in the South (Appalachian Writing)

Offutt, Chris

Willis, Meredith Sue

Mann, Jeff

Argiri, Laura

Lippincott et. al, Robbin

Napier, Okey

Short Stories & Anthologies

Bottom Dog Press

Fiction. Following his release from prison, Mason Laws returns to the mountains of his youth where his estranged wife, Lavada, has been caring for his ailing father in Mason's absence. As Mason and Lavada each set forth to recover themselves, they remain entrenched in the rural and rugged landscape that bore them and their own haunted histories. This moving story tells of the families we're born into, the families we make for ourselves, and how tightly woven are the ties that bind. "Charles Dodd White's writing is dark, gothic and steeped in a voice that is all his own. A SHELTER OF OTHERS confronts what it means to be human."—Frank Bill "It would be easy to draw comparisons to Harry Crews, Ron Rash, or James Salter, but to do so would overlook a voice uniquely his own. Charles Dodd White whittles language down to its most beautiful form. His prose has been pared to poetry. Simple as that."—David Joy

A Shelter of Others

Fiddleblack ltd

Strong stories of the contemporary South by fine fiction writer. "There is a sureness to these stories that arises from an intimate and absolute understanding of the landscape from which they arise. The characters are true and wholly realized, their conflicts as urgent and as current as the daily news. Not sensationalized but forthrightly told, these stories are of the times as well the region. Here is contemporary Appalachia." - Chris Holbrook, author of Upheaval

Sinners of Sanction County (Appalachian Writing)

The War Comes Home Returning from the horrors of the First World War to recruit volunteers in his remote Appalachian home, Marine Sergeant Hiram Tobit finds the country changed. His mother has committed suicide, dredging up old resentments between Hiram and his father, Sloane. When a gruesome act of violence stuns the insular mountain community, father and son must journey together to see justice carried out while coming to terms with a deeply troubled family history.

Lambs of Men

Literary

Casperian Books LLC

"A&nbsp;beautiful, powerful book. Read it and be changed."--Jim Minick This collection of fourteen essays by Charles Dodd White--praised by Silas House as "one of the best prose stylists of Appalachian literature"--explores the boundaries of family, loss, masculinity, and place. Contemplating the suicides of his father, uncle, and son, White meditates on what it means to go on when seemingly everything worth living for is lost. What he discovers is an intimate connection to the natural world, a renewed impulse to understand his troubled family history, and a devotion to following the clues that point to the possibility of a whole life. Avoiding easy sentiment and cliché, White's transformative language drives toward renewal.&nbsp;A Year without Months&nbsp;introduces lively and memorable characters, as the author draws on a wide range of emotions to analyze everything, including himself.

A Year without Months (In Place)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

West Virginia University Press

Reeling from his memories from the battlefields of Europe in World War I, Marine Corps Sergeant Hiram Tobit returns to the remote Appalachian mountains of his youth to recruit a new generation of woodsmen to serve the nation’s armed forces. His native country, however, is fraught with memories of a dead brother, a drunken father, and a mother dead by her own hand. Still, there is grace to be found in the insular mountain community, and when Hiram meets a young single mother and a daughter who is every bit the child of nature, he sees a chance to generate a new kind of family pointing toward the promise of peace. A sudden bloody act of madness ruptures this hope, however, and the small town comes together to seek justice. Hiram and his estranged father Sloane ride out to find the murderer and bring him back to stand trial. The father and son’s journey through the wilderness calls up ghosts of the past, so that each man must come to terms with his own guilt in a world searching for innocence. Both mythic and immediate, Lambs of Men explores the cost of duty and sacrifice and the ultimate desire for lasting redemption. Praise for LAMBS OF MEN 
“Charles Dodd White has written this rich novel of the mountains as though he’s been saving every word of it for a lifetime. A book full of beauty and blood and bone, a story that carries the reader through time, through lives, through dirt and fire.” 
—Crystal Wilkinson, author of THE BIRDS OF OPULENCE\n“An elegant structure for a grim psalm.” 
—Rob Neufeld, Asheville Citizen-Times

United States

Shotgun Honey Books

Following his release from prison, Mason Laws returns to the mountains of his youth where his estranged wife, Lavada, has been caring for his ailing father in Mason's absence. The marriage, however, is as damaged as his father's mind. Resentments crowd out Mason's desire to reconcile and instead of a true homecoming, Mason seeks the chance to build a new sanctuary for himself in the overall wilderness. However, the appearance of a malicious sheriff's deputy makes any hope of a better life impossible. As Mason and Lavada each set forth to recover themselves, they remain entrenched in the rural and rugged landscape that bore them and their own haunted histories. This moving story tells of the families we're born into, the families we make for ourselves, and how tightly woven are the ties that bind. 
Reviews 
"Charles Dodd White's writing is dark, gothic and steeped in a voice that is all his own. A Shelter of Others confronts what it means to be human." 
-Frank Bill, author of Donnybrook 
"Charles Dodd White is one of the best young writers at work today, and A Shelter of Others is his best book yet, a quiet masterpiece in the tradition of Ron Rash and Daniel Woodrell." 
-Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk

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In the House of Wilderness: A Novel

How Fire Runs: A Novel

Unbroken Circle: Stories of Cultural Diversity in the South (Appalachian Writing)

A Shelter of Others

Sinners of Sanction County (Appalachian Writing)

Lambs of Men

A Year without Months (In Place)

Lambs of Men

A Shelter of Others