A deeply moving collective record of devastation, loss, and resilience, beautifully wrought by a remarkable ensemble of Appalachian writers, this anthology gives glimpses of personal experience while illuminating the broader human toll of climate change, the power of community, and the capacity of storytelling to interpret, memorialize, and heal.

--Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain

The environmental writer Barry Lopez said that in the age of climate change, narrative has these important goals: to remember and to help. This book pursues those aims. The collection extols community. . . . While the flood and its aftermath are documented in personal essays, some of the most powerful explorations of its significance lie in the poems and brief works of fiction.

--Places Journal

2024 Weatherford Award Finalist - Non-Fiction

2024 Foreword Reviews INDIES Award Winner - Bronze Medal in Anthologies, General

In Troublesome Rising, each individual story and poem is a shard that captures a part of the story, fragmented and reshaped though it might be through the kaleidoscope of personal memory and circumstance. But grouped together, the stories and poems flow in like waters from all angles, only this time for understanding, healing, and for girding ourselves for the long environmental struggle ahead.

--Ohio Valley History

Publisher: Fireside Industries

Pub date: 2024-09-02

Length: 272 pages