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Michael Farris Smith

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Michael Farris Smith is an award-winning writer whose novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, NPR, Southern Living, Garden & Gun, Oprah Magazine, Book Riot, and numerous other outlets, and have been named Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. He has also written the feature-film adaptations of his novels Desperation Road and The Fighter, titled for the screen as Rumble Through the Dark. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife and daughters.

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Just some updates, SALVAGE THIS WORLD will be out this spring and it looks like I will actually have a book tour this time, which will be a lot of fun getting to the bookstores again since the pandemic wiped out visits for both BLACKWOOD and NICK.

In the last 18 months, the film adaptations of both Desperation Road and The Fighter, screen title Rumble Through the Dark, have been completed. Rumble T Read more of this blog post »

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	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Michael Farris Smith (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.93 avg rating — 4,742,707 ratings — published 1925 — 1405 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
	Desperation Road 4.06 avg rating — 2,938 ratings — published 2017 — 20 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 3.17 avg rating — 3,369 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Rivers (Rivers, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 2,201 ratings — published 2013 — 19 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 3.70 avg rating — 1,638 ratings — published 2020 — 13 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 4.06 avg rating — 1,138 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
	The Hands of Strangers 4.01 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2011 — 7 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) 3.71 avg rating — 119 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
	Salvage This World: A Novel 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — expected publication 2023 — 4 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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“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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“if there is one thing the lost are able to recognize it is the others who are just as wounded and wandering.”
― Michael Farris Smith, Nick

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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

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The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had, by Kristin Levine

11 votes 16.7%

Quite a Year for Plums, by Bailey White

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Above the Waterfall, by Ron Rash

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Hard Cash Valley, by Brian Panowich

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