Kentuckiana

Set in a decidedly postmodern subdivision in Appalachia, Kentuckiana focuses on the lives of the Miles family, an imaginary clan invented by a real-estate developer who is authoring a report on the neighborhoods he has created. The travails of the deeply troubled but endearing Miles family--Jean and Constance and their children, Judy, Stephen, Elaine, Talia and Lynnette--are played out against the backdrop of early-1970s suburban Lexington, KY in this darkly funny, moving second novel from the author of Chalk Lake. Both generations recount their brushes with divorce, addiction and domestic violence through a series of chapter-long monologues.