Van Boorean's Hill

By: J. M. Unrue

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

As the rest of America struggled during the Great Depression, the denizens of Hopewell Valley, Kentucky, were unmoved—they had always struggled.

Henry Van Boorean made his own way—backstreet boxing, bootleg wine-making, and homemade fertilizer (spiked with roadkill). Along with his polio-stricken wife, two sons, a temperamental rooster, and a cast of eccentrics, he withstood the mid-twentieth century on a rundown farm in the foothills of Appalachia.

Van Boorean’s Hill is the anti-Waltons. Unrue deftly subverts a century of Appalachian stereotypes with warmth, depth, and delicious humor…