Two Appalachian Nurses Traverse the Same Path a Generation Apart in Rose Senehi’s “Falling Off a Cliff”
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In this episode 247, we visit with Rose Senehi, author of “Falling Off a Cliff,” a novel of the Appalachian Mountains, in which two women decades apart traverse the same path—one woman searching for her past, the other looking toward the future.
In the 1920’s Lula Mae traverses the harsh terrain of the Blue Ridge Mountains with another woman, a doctor determined to heal those in the oft-forgotten mountain community. Forty years later, Holly journeys to uncover the mysteries of her origins and search for the mother she’s never known.
Mark de Castrique, author of the Sam Blackman mystery series, had this to say about the book, “In Falling Off a Cliff, Rose Senehi plunges us into a world rich with a unique sense of time and place. This haunting tale is more than setting, more than a glimpse into the ways of a disappearing Appalachian culture, but rather a story of two strong women, a generation apart, whose sole ambition is to bring healing to their community despite the challenging terrain and suspicious attitudes. But for one of them, healing must also come from within as she searches for her lost past shrouded by a dark, impenetrable secret. The satisfying mixture of history and mystery yields a novel that will be remembered well beyond the turn of the last page.”
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About the Author:
Falling off a Cliff is Rose Senehi’s tenth novel, and the seventh in her Blue Ridge series of standalone books. Both Catching Fire, her ninth novel, and Carolina Belle, her eighth, were awarded Historical Book Awards from the N.C. Society of Historians, Inc. Render Unto the Valley was awarded a 2012 IPPY Gold Medal for Fiction—Southeast. Dancing on Rocks was awarded the 2014 Indie-Reader Discovery Award for Popular Fiction. In the Shadows of Chimney Rock was nominated for the 2009 SIBA Book Award, and The Wind in the Woods for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. Her other novels include Pelican Watch, Windfall, and Shadows in the Grass.
Additional Endorsements for “Falling Off a Cliff”
| “Rose Senehi knows and loves her mountains and their people— their peaks and valleys, both physical and personal—and in Falling Off A Cliff she shares them with an unerring eye and a fine sense of detail. But this is not just another mountain book. It is the riveting story of two women on journeys at the core of their lives: Lula Mae, striving toward her future, and Holly, in search of the mysteries of her past. It is a superb piece of fiction from a gifted storyteller. —Robert Inman, Author, Home Fires Burning.
“With Falling Off a Cliff Rose Senehi continues her exploration of a special area with a very special history. Holly Baldwin’s search for her origins offers the story of a culture well nigh forgotten and of a way of life now abandoned. Yet, at its heart, this novel is a love story we all happily recognize.” —Fred Chappell, NC Poet Laureate Emeritus, Author, Ancestors and Others and Look Back All the Green Valley |
“It’s always a pleasure to immerse oneself in a world that an author creates with a good story. Holly Baldwin’s search for the truth by following her heart in Senehi’s Falling Off a Cliff encourages me to jump off my own cliff and dive for the truth in my search for my fore-parents. It’s everyone’s center.
—Emöke B’Rácz, Poet and Founder, Malaprop’s Book & Café, and Downtown Books and News, Asheville, NC
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