Malone Ridge
by James K. Dill
Eve Malone is impatient, her life unsettled. When not working, she cares for her mother in a dilapidated trailer on the family property, Malone Ridge. Momma is in rehab, and Daddy is getting out of prison soon. To cope, Eve lives vicariously through a favorite graphic novel and her best friend, Marcy. This wasn’t the life she had planned. Tragedy provides Eve the opportunity to run away from the drug-addled Allegheny mountains of West Virginia to Alexandria, Virginia, a land not so distant in miles but a world away from her old life. When a once-dashed dream reappears, calling her back to Malone Ridge, she must choose between all she’s built and all she’s escaped.
“Malone Ridge is a well-conceived, well-told tale of spirit triumphing over circumstances. And for Eve Malone, the protagonist, the circumstances are, if not dire, close enough. … engaging, eminently readable and not without suspense, with rich descriptions of both people and places.”
—Claire Matturro, Southern Literary Review
Interview by Konstantin Rega
Jan 27, 2023 — A Richmond author finds inspiration in the idea of home and runs with it. Malone Ridge by James K. Dill.
