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Appalachia north : a memoir / Matthew Ferrence.

by Ferrence, Matthew J.

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West Virginia University Press, 2019.

Ferrence, Matthew J.

Appalachian Region -- Description and travel.

Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs.

Appalachian Region -- Biography.

9781946684707 (pbk.)

274 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-274).

"Appalachia North is the first book-length treatment of the cultural position of northern Appalachia--the portion of the official Appalachian Regional Commission zone that lies above the Mason-Dixon line. For Matthew Ferrence this region fits into a tight space of not-quite: not quite "regular" America and not-quite Appalachia. Ferrence's sense of geographic ambiguity is compounded when he learns that his birthplace in western Pennsylvania is technically not a mountain but, instead, a dissected plateau shaped by the slow, deep cuts of erosion. That discovery is followed by the diagnosis of a brain tumor, setting Ferrence on a journey that is part memoir, part exploration of geology and place. Appalachia North is an investigation of how the labels of Appalachia have been drawn and written, and also a reckoning with how a body always in recovery can, like a region viewed always as a site of extraction, find new territories of growth"--publisher.

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