The Gospel of Rot
Book description
At the age of seventy-one, the recluse Amelia finally leaves her home in the North Carolina mountains to find the world grown strange and almost deserted. In her quest to unravel the mysteries of this apocalyptic landscape, she encounters a neighbor turned into an apple tree, children trapped in mica,…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Gospel of Rot as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this book because it checks so many boxes that are important to me: a unique voice, a fascinating female protagonist, Southern gothic, literary, and imaginative.
Over the course of two days, I devoured this book, a book challenging a southern landscape I thought I knew while spectacularly shifting the traditional conventions of storytelling.
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