Thomas Reid Pearson is een Amerikaanse romanschrijver wiens werken zich vaak verdiepen in de complexiteit van menselijke relaties en maatschappelijke kwesties. Zijn schrijfstijl kenmerkt zich door scherp inzicht in karakterpsychologie en nauwgezette observatie van de wereld om hem heen. Pearson verkent thema's als identiteit, herinnering en de zoektocht naar betekenis in het moderne tijdperk. Door zijn boeiende proza en doordachte verhalen heeft Pearson zich gevestigd als een belangrijke stem in de hedendaagse Amerikaanse literatuur.
The funny, touching story of a mangy, flea-bitten mutt and her grumpy, hard-bitten savior set in the Appalachian highlands of Virginia. Southern storytelling at its best from the author of A SHORT HISTORY OF A SMALL PLACE and EAGLESWORTH.
Ray Tatum tangles with the rural Virginia MAGA crowd in a collision of homespun charity and bigoted villainy. He's more than the blood and soil set can handle.
A small Virginia town, long since bypassed by the interstate, has but two claims on historical significance -- a plaque marking the route where General Longstreet's army retired from a defeat and a near derelict Georgian mansion called Eaglesworth. The house sits on a hilltop, neglected and weathered, until a stranger rolls in to bring it back to life. The lively story of the sordid secrets the renovation reveals is told by a pack of local barflies, a ragged bunch of half-cocked civic boosters and gossips who give us history as seen through the bottom of a shot glass. Funny, bittersweet, and glancingly philosophical, Eaglesworth is a fanciful biography of a place, a latter-day slice of the Old Dominion that the Sage of Monticello would hardly recognize.