Welcome to Litsy!

I pretty much love all things Scott McClanahan, so it's time to move on to Hill William!

I'd call it linked vignettes rather than short stories. Hits you fast and hard with its disturbing look at growing in a dirt poor Appalachia mining town. Drugs, sexual confusion, psychosis, rape. All this can be offensive at times, especially with respect to how women and girls are treated, but that may be the point. Despite all this, the stories stay with you.