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Michael Farris Smith

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Michael Farris Smith is the author of Blackwood (2020), The Fighter, Desperation Road, Rivers, and The Hands of Strangers. His novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, Southern Living, Book Riot, and numerous others, and have been named Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. His essays have appeared with The New York Times, Bitter Southerner, Writer’s Bone, and more. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife and daughters.

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	Desperation Road 4.07 avg rating — 2,391 ratings — published 2017 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rivers (Rivers, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 2,047 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackwood 3.80 avg rating — 991 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fighter 4.07 avg rating — 835 ratings — published 2018 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nick 3.40 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2021 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the beginning (Rivers #0.5) 3.77 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hands of Strangers 4.01 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mississippi Noir by Tom Franklin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ace Atkins, Michael Farris Smith (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gather at the River: Twenty-Five Authors on Fishing by David Joy (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric Rickstad (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Taylor Brown (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.20 avg rating — 45 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Story Behind the Book : Volume 4 - Essays on Writing & Editing Fiction by Kristijan Meic (Editor), Ivana Steiner (Editor), James Robertson (Goodreads Author) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Michael Smith made a comment in the group On the Southern Literary Trail — Author Q&A: Michael Farris Smith: July 2018 topic " Laura wrote: "Adding to what Diane said, it was an honor for you to join us this month. An author that is humble adds to my reading experience. Until ...more "
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Michael Smith made a comment on Film options for both... " Doug wrote: "i finally started The Fighter and I’m loving it! I’m a quarter of the way through and your prose is fantastic. I wish I could write like ...more "
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“Tomorrow you and them will set out for the end of your lives and I’ll be here. The one who gave and would keep on giving if you’d let me. But you don’t want to let me. You and them are going to walk through the valley but you’ll have no shepherd. You’ll have no answers. And you’ll kill the babies. And you’ll die. You ain’t no healer, no more than I am, but I can give more than you.”
― Michael Farris Smith, Rivers

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“And it was then that Cohen began to feel the weight of the others in this house on this dot on the map below the Line. He had always been aware that he wasn't the only one who had lost, but the losses for others seemed different to him, more true and exact, now that the losses of others had eyes and faces and arms and legs.”
― Michael Farris Smith, Rivers

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“How could you imagine the complexities of what might come?”
― Michael Farris Smith, Desperation Road

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What shall we read in August, 2020? Books published after 1980.

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

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Desperation Road, by Michael Farris Smith

12 votes 17.9%

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had, by Kristin Levine

11 votes 16.4%

Quite a Year for Plums, by Bailey White

9 votes 13.4%

Above the Waterfall, by Ron Rash

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Hard Cash Valley, by Brian Panowich

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