Running on Red Dog Road
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Running on Red Dog Road

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Running on Red Dog Road

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"Mining companies piled trash coal in a slag heap and set it ablaze. The coal burned up, but the slate didn't. The heat turned it rose and orange and lavender. The dirt road I lived on was paved with that sharp-edged rock. We called it Red Dog. My grandmother always told me, 'Don't you go running on that Red Dog road.' But oh, I did."

Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after Drema's father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that reads like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, jitterbug lessons, and traveling carnivals, and though it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family of saints and sinners whose lives defy the stereotypes. Just as she defies her own.

Running On Red Dog Road is proof that truth is stranger than fiction, especially when it comes to life and faith in an Appalachian childhood.

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Publisher
Zondervan
Year
2016
ISBN
9780310344988
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religious Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. A Note from the Author
  7. Prologue: In the Beginning . . .
  8. 1. I Come from Coal
  9. 2. Washed In the Blood
  10. 3. The Color of India Ink
  11. 4. Strung On Fine Wire
  12. 5. Forcing the Forsythia
  13. 6. A Hobo’s Prayer
  14. 7. The Spirit Is Willing
  15. 8. Only the Essence Remained
  16. 9. Mistook for a Haint
  17. 10. Most Call Me Tolly
  18. 11. Survivors Will Be Shot
  19. 12. A Handful of the Mountain
  20. 13. Lead a Horse to Water
  21. 14. A Gizzard On My Fork
  22. 15. Suffer the Little Children
  23. 16. The Flesh Is Weak
  24. 17. Ladies Don’t Sweat
  25. 18. Gypsy Skirt
  26. 19. Birds of a Feather
  27. 20. The Living and the Deaf
  28. 21. Lonely Hearts Club Man
  29. 22. There Be Dragons
  30. 23. Mr. Pursley’s World
  31. 24. The River Ran Cold
  32. 25. The Mountain Fell Away
  33. 26. All the Bells Were Ringing
  34. Epilogue: We Are Going Home . . .
  35. Acknowledgments