The Ancient Hours, Paperback/Michael Bible

Harmony, North Carolina is a typical town--full of saints and sinners you can't tell apart... Its history echoes with lynchings and shootings; mob violence and vigilante justice. But those are just whispers of a past lost to time. The summer of 2000 was different. Iggy in the Baptist church. Gasoline and a match. Twenty-five people dead. This, Harmony couldn't forget. Told in a kaleidoscope of timelines and voices, Michael Bible examines every dimension of a tragic but all-too-American story in The Ancient Hours . The victims, witnesses, perpetrators, and condemned comingle and evolve as the passage of time works its way through their lives. What emerges is a fable of the American South in the highest tradition: soaring, tragic, and eternally striving for redemption. About author(s): Michael Bible is originally from North Carolina. His work has appeared in the Oxford American , The Paris Review Daily , Al-Jazeera America , ESPN The Magazine , and New York Tyrant Magazine . He is a former bookseller at Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, and lives in New York.