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Voices from Appalachia

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Roger Osborne's "Voices From Appalachia" preserves the thoughts, hopes, dreams and struggles of the Appalachian people. The book is enlighting, entertaining and blessed with down home stories written from the heart by Roger and other Appalachian writers. "Voices From Appalachia" will live forever in my memory. The stories are about love, sharing, sacrifice, tragedy, grief, and forgiveness. Readers will find great joy in meeting and knowing the people of Appalachia. Roger Osborne is a master storyteller that shows gentle warmth and wit in his writings about growing up in and around mining towns of West Virginia. He documents an Appalachian boy's discovery of varied pleasures, puzzling paradoxes, and inescapable pain of finding his place in the community and the world. I also enjoyed reading Roger Osborne's three other books, "Land Of Yesterday, The Mountains Wept and Pilgrimage To An Appalachian Mining Camp."

I have known Mr Osborne almost all my life. We attended the same school, and grew up in the coal fields of West Virginia. Roger is a very talented writer, and he brings our younger years back to life again. When you read his books, it is like you are back in time and living the years over again. If anyone has not read Roger's books, they should buy them, and once they do, they will not be able to put them down until the last word is read. My books are in a very special place in my house. I have all of Roger's books, and if it is possible that there are more to follow, I will have them to. God Bless Roger.

Having been a childhood schoolmate of the author from elementary to high school, we shared personally many of the circumstances and situations Roger recounts with unique clarity of recall and poignance in this compelling work. From the opening paragraph to the closing, the reader, whether or not a native of Appalachia, will quickly find himself enjoying vicariously through each of the "voices" who contributed to this heartwarming anthology, an emotional rollercoaster ride which spans the entire realm of human experience. I truly am honored to have the privilege of being one of those "voices."