Van Boorean's Hill

By J. M. Unrue

As the rest of America struggled during the Great Depression, the denizens of Hopewell Valley, Kentucky, were unmoved-they had always struggled.

Henry Van Boorean made his own way-backstreet boxing, bootleg wine-making, and homemade fertilizer (spiked with roadkill). Along with his polio-stricken wife, two sons, a temperamental rooster, and a cast of eccentrics, he withstood the mid-twentieth century on a rundown farm in the foothills of Appalachia.

Van Boorean's Hill is the anti-Waltons. Unrue deftly subverts a century of Appalachian stereotypes with warmth, depth, and delicious humor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C1DN632G
• ISBN13: 9798388201935
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"