
You don’t know how strong you are until strong is your only choice. You don’t know how creative you are until creativity is your only choice. Up. Up. Up. We should all learn to look up instead of ahead.
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You don’t know how strong you are until strong is your only choice. You don’t know how creative you are until creativity is your only choice. Up. Up. Up. We should all learn to look up instead of ahead.

I‘m sitting in Starbucks, fighting back the tears and this time it has absolutely nothing to do with my mother’s failing health. These are tears for Whitney Kropp. Perhaps you heard about the high school sophmore from West Branch, Mich.. My friend Patti Callahan Henry shared the story with me. Seems Whitney was voted to [...]

I am off to Baton Rouge. I won’t return until Saturday. Pray for me, will you? I need prayer this week. My girlfriend here in town called me tonight. She’s worried about all this traveling I’ve been doing — Atlanta, Seattle, now Baton Rouge. A couple of trips to Spokane thrown in for good measure. [...]
Karen will be touring her new book MOTHER OF RAIN with Ann Hite, author of THE STORYCATCHER, Fall 2013.
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MOTHER OF RAIN: A NOVEL
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Karen Spears Zacharias has carved a brilliant gem of a novel out of hard, uncompromising times and lives. Her remote mountain setting conceals misery, mystery, and madness — but also love, which comes in many forms. Zacharias examines these intertwined lives with great compassion and daring; she is a wonderful writer.
- Lee Smith, author of "Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger"
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Karen Spears Zacharias captures the humor, spirituality and language of Appalachia with stunning authenticity, through characters that leap off the page. With Mother of Rain, Zacharias has done her part to help preserve our mountain heritage for future generations.
-Amy Greene, author of “Bloodroot”

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