In the Valley Stories and a Novella Based on Serena by Ron Rash

The New York Times has called Ron Rash, “One of the great American Authors at work today.” The Wall Street Journal dubbed him "As good as any contemporary American novelist I've read. No wonder. His story collection, Burning Bright, won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award as the best of that genre written that year in the English language, and another of his six story collections, Chemistry, was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award, as was his New York Times best-selling novel, Serena. It was made into a Hollywood movie, and another of his seven novels, The World Made Straight, was also made into a movie. Ron Rash is also the author of five poetry collections. This book is a collection of nine short stories, averaging 14 pages each and a 93-page novella, the title piece, which serves as a sequel to his novel, Serena. Last year, when it was published in hardback, this book, In the Valley, was named the winner of the 2020 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Liter