02640cam a2200349 4500 521638856 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780310344988 0310344980 B010R0I518 Amazon 872040e4-1a09-4601-8149-adea0cd323bc OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2277169 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Berkheimer, Drema Hall. Running on Red Dog Road [Libby] : And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood. Zondervan, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 977kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 977kB. Biography & Autobiography. Christian Nonfiction. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>"Mining companies piled trash coal in a slag heap and set it ablaze. The coal burned up, but the slate didn't. The heat turned it rose and orange and lavender. The dirt road I lived on was paved with that sharp-edged rock. We called it Red Dog. My grandmother always told me, 'Don't you go running on that Red Dog road.' But oh, I did."</p> <p>Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after Drema's father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that reads like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, jitterbug lessons, and traveling carnivals, and though it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family of saints and sinners whose lives defy the stereotypes. Just as she defies her own.</p> <p>Running On Red Dog Road is proof that truth is stranger than fiction, especially when it comes to life and faith in an Appalachian childhood.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:35:50. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=872040e4-1a09-4601-8149-adea0cd323bc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=872040e4-1a09-4601-8149-adea0cd323bc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=872040e4-1a09-4601-8149-adea0cd323bc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXSAI