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Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do
Questions of identity and abandonment haunt the linked stories that make up Janet Holloway's Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do. In writing at once intimate and sweeping, Holloway sketches the saga of a twentieth-century Appalachian family.

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Leaving: Sometimes you Have to Leave
The narrator of Leaving struggles with the prescribed roles for women and good girls long before there were words for what was happening.

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A Willful Child
A story of Betrayals and Beginnings Janet's debut is as dazzling as the West Virginia countryside she describes. Her father a hardworking coalminer, her granny an unrepentant bootlegger, Holloway remembers a childhood grasping at the shards of a shattering family.

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