• Coming of age in Appalachia during the years preceding the civil rights movement
• Racism, class divides, and civic corruption in 1950s small-town Virginia
• Guns, girls, illegal moonshine, and the KKK
• A.D. Hopkins is a Hall of Fame journalist, author, and editor
• $25,000 marketing and publicity campaign
• Key media outlets: Goodreads, NPR.org Books, Los Angeles Times, Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Review-Journal, KNPR, Booklist, Foreword, Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews
