The ancient hours, paperback/michael bible

Harmony, North Carolina is a typical town--full of saints and sinners you cant tell apart.

Its history echoes with lynchings and shootings; mob violence and vigilante justice.

But those are just whispers of a past lost to time.

The summer of 2000 was different.

Iggy in the Baptist church.

Gasoline and a match.

Twenty-five people dead.

This, Harmony couldnt forget.

Told in a kaleidoscope of timelines and voices, Michael Bible examines every dimension of a tragic but all-too-American story in The Ancient Hours .

The victims, witnesses, perpetrators, and condemned comingle and evolve as the passage of time works its way through their lives.

What emerges is a fable of the American South in the highest tradition: soaring, tragic, and eternally striving for redemption.

About author(s): Michael Bible is originally from North Carolina.

His work has appeared in the Oxford American , The Paris Review Daily , Al-Jazeera America , ESPN The Magazine , and New York Tyrant Magazine .

He is a former bookseller at Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, and lives in New York.