Mercer University Press
Washed in the Blood
I’d only vaguely heard of the Melungeons before reading Washed in the Blood. Lisa Alther has brought this mysterious Appalachian…
Swimming with Serpents
As an Alabama native who’s visited Horseshoe Bend and knows descendants of William Weatherford, I was interested in this novel…
Washed in the Blood
Washed in the Blood is a saga spanning three centuries of the (as one character terms it) “racially ambiguous” descendants…
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