The Great And The Narrow

By E.D. Burton

A young woman is tangled in the isolationist ways of her indigent family. At the mercy of invaders, she is forced to evaluate the truth behind Nana's unusual peculiarities and indebtedness to strangers from the past.

One morning Bahiya had awakened, and Nana's shoes were gone from the doormat, and threads of her shawl were hanging from the wall hook. When Bahiya's mother found out, she called Nana a no-good woman and spat. It seemed Nana was the worst. But mostly for abandoning Eighteen Oaks.

Without a Weaver, there was one way to maintain a family, a people, as Freedom Day approached. Nothing in, Nothing out, Bahiya's mother said. You know why and how come.

Bahiya took those words but then realized she didn't know anything. She was left lost to the Old. Left to wonder if maybe Nana had heard the babble. Because each time she did, the woods, the weeds, the river, and especially the Grand Oaks, and even grass thirty miles away would tell Nana everything about the world around them.

I know the earth...and I feel the darkness when it climbs the slopes, waiting for a chance to slither into the bends of you and me, Bahiya remembered Nana saying.

With the darkness left to roam the mountainside, Bahiya and her parents are forced to remember everything they were taught about the Old. Every tiny grain of Nana's medicine would be needed to keep the Narrow out. But, if Bahiya and her parents let up, they risk losing Eighteen Oaks for good.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 057835666X
• ISBN13: 9780578356662
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: E. D. Burton
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"