Clay's Quilt - by Silas House (Paperback)

About the Book

A motherless young man must stitch his life together among his relatives and other lively folks of Free Creek Kentucky.

Book Synopsis

A motherless young man must stitch his life together among his relatives and other lively folks of Free Creek Kentucky.

Review Quotes

"Silas House is one of my favorite writers." -Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

"Deftly written, replete with wisdom." -Publishers Weekly

"A lovely and accomplished literary debut." -Booklist

"House writes from deep within the culture and presents his world without apology or gloss." -Chris Offutt, Country Dark

"A long love poem to the hills...like the finely stitched quilts that Clay's Uncle Paul labors over, the author sews a flawless seam of folks who love their home and each other." -Southern Living

About the Author

Silas House is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, one book of creative nonfiction, and three plays. His writing has appeared frequently in the New York Times and has been published in Time, Newsday, Garden and Gun, Oxford American, and many other places. House is the winner of an E.B. White Award, the Nautilus Award, the Intellectual Freedom Prize from the National Council of Teachers of English, the Storylines Prize from the New York Public Library/NAV Foundation, and many other honors, as well as being long listed for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He teaches at Berea College and in the Spalding University School of Writing.