The Songs of Betty Baach
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The Songs of Betty Baach

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eBook - PDF

The Songs of Betty Baach

About this book

Finalist for the 2023 Weatherford Fiction Award

Some called her the Everywhen Woman. She claimed to be 321 years of age. In 2038, after the big storm and the great flood and the bad times, Betty Baach wrote these words down and sometimes spoke them aloud, at her homeplace on Freon Hill. She referred to them as songs. All stories are songs, she'd always say.

Set in West Virginia, The Songs of Betty Baach is a magical guide to resisting despair and a compendium of wisdom and rhythms by which to fortify oneself. The lives of the Baaches of Keystone and the Knoxes of Mosestown twist and connect in a tale of survival and retribution that crosses three centuries—moving from Betty's girlhood in colonial America to a future warped by environmental collapse and political unrest. Refusing the erasure of the lives of women, Indigenous peoples, and Black people who have always called this region home, this eloquent and distinctive novel is a necessary remedy for the continued distortion of a land and its inhabitants.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. About Betty Baach
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Song of the MuleBird
  8. Song of the WorkShirt
  9. Song of the Llama
  10. Song of the Nascent
  11. Song of the Robot
  12. Song of the Tree
  13. Song of the Exalted
  14. Song of the Recidivist
  15. Song of Memory
  16. Song of Solomon Wood
  17. Song of Imagination
  18. Song of the Stringbean
  19. Song of the Bad Prize
  20. Song of the Fishbird
  21. Song of Recurring Dream #44
  22. Song of Blood
  23. Song of the Arrow
  24. Song of the Runaways
  25. Song of the Marvelous Museum
  26. Song of Water
  27. Song of the Panther
  28. Song of Bone
  29. Song of Providence
  30. Song of Recurring Dream #77
  31. Song of the Flood
  32. Song of the Oxherd
  33. Song of Recurring Dream #99
  34. Song of the BucketMouth of TalePackia
  35. Song of Sorrow
  36. Song of the Great Horned Owl
  37. Song of Regret
  38. Song of Switchback
  39. Song of the Splintercat
  40. Acknowledgments
  41. Back Cover