Memory's Keep (Clay Bank County) - Hardcover

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James Everett Kibler is a professor of English at the University of Georgia. Born and raised in upcountry South Carolina, Kibler spends much of his spare time tending to the renovation of an 1804 plantation home and the reforestation of the surrounding acreage. The history and saga of this house is chronicled in his critically acclaimed Our Fathers' Fields: A Southern Story, for which he was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction. Kibler divides his time between Whitmire, South Carolina, and Athens, Georgia.

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"In Memory's Keep, James Kibler has created a world, and remembered a world, so vivid, so real, it becomes part of the reader's world as well." --Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and Brave Enemies

"Memory's Keep fulfills the promise Kibler revealed in Walking Toward Home: He stands with Wendell Berry as an inheritor of Caroline Gordon's mantle for preeminent Agrarian novelists. Like Berry, Kibler explores the relationships among life on the land, family strength, individual sense of self-worth and self-restraint, sense of community predicated upon place and history rather than cash nexus, the inextricable ties of past-present-future, and the incessant narcotic tug of American materialism. Kibler's Clay Bank County, South Carolina, is becoming as bountiful, and pleasantly correcting, a fictional locale as Berry's Port William, Kentucky." --James Cantrell, author of How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature

"James Kibler makes no bones about it. Memory's Keep is an all-out, full-hearted, sentimental paean to the golden days that were, or might have been, or surely should have been. Anyone who likes the smell of newly turned April dirt, of green fields simmering in summer heat, of freshly planed walnut, will love every page of this fondly authored book." --Fred Chappell, author of I Am One of You Forever

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James Everett Kibler is known for his lyrical and poignant tales of Southern agrarianism and his critical examinations of the modern world. In his latest novel, the same themes are explored in the story of Mister Pink Suber, whose five children have moved away after the death of his wife. Alone, he goes on tending his land and livestock while mentoring his young neighbor and friend, Trig Tinsley, in the ways of farming and life.

Written in the loose style of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales or Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Memory's Keep is a nostalgic and bittersweet flashback, revealing the formative experiences of Trig Tinsley, the unforgettable curmudgeon at the center of Walking Toward Home, Kibler's previous novel, also set in Clay Bank County. The novel exceeds Trig's individual life, taking us back over a century and a half ago to a time when daily life was more tangibly tied to the land.

Memory's Keep contains a world full of sacredness and steadfastness rooted in Kibler's connection to nature and the sensibilities of Celtic imagination.

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Born and raised in upcountry South Carolina, James Everett Kibler spends much of his spare time tending to the renovation of an 1804 plantation home and the reforestation of the surrounding acreage. He is the author of Our Fathers' Fields: A Southern Story, for which he was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction in 1999, Child to the Waters, a collection of Southern fables, and a novel, Walking Toward Home, all published by Pelican. He divides his time between Maybinton, South Carolina, and Athens, Georgia, where he serves as a professor of English at the University of Georgia.