Newfound
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Originally published in 1989, this Gnomon Press edition was released in 1996.
In Newfound, Jim Wayne Miller offers a lyrical, plain-spoken coming-of-age story set in Appalachian Tennessee. In episodic vignettes, young Robert navigates his parents’ divorce, life on his grandparents’ farms, and seasonal rhythms. By age seventeen he leaves Newfound Creek for Berea College, shaped by family lore and hard-won lessons. In 1993 Miller published a sequel: His First, Best Country.
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Jim Wayne Miller (1936–1996), a native of the mountain country of North Carolina, was a professor of German language and literature at Western Kentucky University for thirty-three years. He served as a consultant to Appalachian studies programs in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio and was a visiting professor of Appalachian studies at what is now the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center at Berea College. He received multiple awards, and his books include Copperhead Cane; Dialogue with a Dead Man; The Mountains Have Come Closer; Vein of Words; Nostalgia for 70; Brier, His Book; Newfound; and His First, Best Country.