Title: The Past Is Never Pdf A Novel
**WINNER of the Mississippi Author Award for Adult Fiction selected by the Mississippi Library Association**
**WINNER of the 2019 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Fiction**
**WINNER of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction**
**Finalist for the 2019 Colorado Book Awards for Literary Fiction***
"An ode to William Faulkner. . . . As Southern as it gets."—Deep South Magazine
A compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction, deftly weaving together local legends, family secrets, and the search for a missing child.
Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it's the Devil's place, a place that's been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer days are scorching hot and they can't resist cooling off in the dark, bottomless water. Until the day six-year-old Pansy vanishes. Not drowned, not lost . . . simply gone. When their father disappears as well, Bert and Willet leave their childhoods behind to try and hold their broken family together.
Years pass with no sign, no hope of ever finding Pansy alive, and as surely as their mother died of a broken heart, Bert and Willet can't move on. So when clues surface drawing them to the remote tip of Florida, they drop everything and drive south. Deep in the murky depths of the Florida Everglades they may find the answer to Pansy's mysterious disappearance . . . but truth, like the past, is sometimes better left where it lies.
Perfect for fans of Flannery O'Connor and Dorothy Allison, The Past Is Never is an atmospheric, haunting story of myths, legends, and the good and evil we carry in our hearts.
compelling mystery I loved this book. It's a wonderful mystery wrapped in a family saga. As the relationships between people unfold and each generation gives up its secrets, the story holds on to the reader tighter and tighter. A multi-layered study of human nature and the times the characters lived through make this book a keeper. Happy ending? Hard to say. Realistic, yes.It's Not Even Past The title and setting, partially set in the woods and cotton fields of Mississippi, clearly invoke Faulkner. The writing is not so much like Faulkner, but the story sure is. The narrator's young sister vanishes while swimming in the local flooded quarry. A quarry their father says is cursed and haunted. Their itinerant criminal father also seemingly vanishes when he fails to return home. The years go by and our narrator grows up and searches for answers that leads her to the Florida Everglades. Family secrets, race, superstition, legend, murder, good & evil... all mix in a way familiar to anyone that's read ‘Absalom, Absalom!’"The past is never dead. It's not even past." I think Faulkner would approve.Boring, average writing, shallow characters The first few pages of this book made it seem intriguing. And ... It had won a prize! That makes it a good book, right?Wrong.Comparing this book to Faulkner - just because the author used a cheap trick by selecting a Faulkner quote for the book's title - is like comparing a fine Thoroughbred to a country mule. This is not Faulkneresque. It's not Walker Percy-esque. Or Eudora Welty-esque. It's a poser of a book, a book that pretends to be Southern gothic, that teases you with a mystery, then draws out the mystery for pages and pages - long after the plot should actually have gone somewhere - and in the end - SPOILER ALERT - what happened is just what one of the main characters thinks happened all along.All the malarky about Bubba and the aliens, and Granny Clem and all the women she helps ... it's all BS. It's filler to kill time because the author didn't really have much of a plot. The author could have left out Bubba and the aliens and most of Granny Clem's bit without affecting the story, but again, it was a cheap trick designed to fool you because, really, the author didn't have anything but an obvious solution to the "mystery." So Dad took Pansy. Gee. What we all thought was most likely ended up being the answer.The book goes back and forth in time, without any warning. Somewhere in the middle of the book you suddenly lurch backward in time. These episodes are handled quite clumsily by the author, are not well done, and they don't add to the mystery. The reader figures out who these people are from the very first, and thereafter the answer to the mystery, about 200 pages before the author gets around to finally revealing what we've already known.I love a good Southern book. This isn't it. Though it does have a lot of Southern clichés and of course we have to throw in some racism for flavor to make it authentic. I gave it two stars because it's long and the author - I guess - spent time on it, but why this book won a prize is beyond me. The writing is only average; about a third of the book could have been cut out and made for a tighter, better story; and the author never made me care about the characters. Even the narrator is a ditz and a whiner. I had to make myself finish it because I hate paying for something I don't finish. But man, it was hard to keep going.Avoid this book and read Faulkner instead. I recommend "As I Lay Dying" or "Flags in the Dust." Just for starters.
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