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Wiley Cash

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Wiley Cash is theNew York Times best selling author of The Last Ballad, A Land More Kind than Home, and This Dark Road to Mercy (William Morrow/HarperCollins). He currently serves as the writer-in-residence at the University of North Carolina-Asheville and teaches in the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and their two young daughters. Please visit wileycash.com to check the scheduled events for his book tour in the fall of 2017.

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The Last Ballad LIVE! Tonight at 8:00 pm DST

Join New York Times bestselling author Wiley Cash and special musical guests Chatham Rabbits, Hunter Holmes, and Shannon Whitworth to learn the stories and hear the music behind Wiley’s novel The Last Ballad. In the summer of 1929, Gastonia, North Carolina, was the site of a violent textile strike and an incubator for some of the most influential music ever written. Join us live this evening a Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 24, 2020 12:10 • Tags: bluegrass, loray-mill, the-last-ballad, wiley-cash

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	A Land More Kind Than Home 3.88 avg rating — 29,219 ratings — published 2012 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Dark Road to Mercy 3.79 avg rating — 9,894 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Ballad 3.86 avg rating — 8,686 ratings — published 2017 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Ghosts Come Home 3.67 avg rating — 8,453 ratings — published 2021 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rain Barrel: The interstices of race, class, and religion in North Carolina. 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Same River Twice: A Novel 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“There is an old saying that every story, even your own, is either happy or sad depending on where you stop telling it. I believe I'll stop telling this one here.”
― Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad

tags: murder, north-carolina, organizers, southern-fiction, southern-lit, southern-writers, union-busting, unions

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“[Death is] to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.” —THOMAS WOLFE, YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN”
― Wiley Cash, A Land More Kind Than Home

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“I’ve learned to just go ahead and take fairness out of the equation. If you do, things stand the chance of making a whole lot more sense.”
― Wiley Cash, A Land More Kind Than Home

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What shall we read in June, 2025? Books published after 1990.

Serena, by Ron Rash

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Night Watch, by Jayne Anne Phillips

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A Land More Kind Than Home, by Wiley Cash

5 votes 20.0%

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, by Erik Larson

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Blackwood, by Michael Farris Smith

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A Southern Tragedy, In Crimson And Yellow, by Lawrence Naumoff

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