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Nancy's Lot
A Story About a Family
Hiding in the Mountains
Wayman Strother
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Price: $24.95
Casebound with Jacket | 425 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9772337-2-4 |
Summary
This novel tells the story of a mysterious, violent family that lived and toiled in the rugged Appalachian Mountains. The first section is told from the perspective of the youngest child in the family, Lo, as he becomes aware of the need for secrecy that underlies their existence, as well as the difficult role his mother, Nancy, plays in keeping them alive. Over time, Lo realizes that the mountains are a haven for criminals in hiding from the law, and that many other families have their own secrets too. As he enters puberty, he decides to walk away from it and create a new life for himself in the outside world. The story picks up a half-century later, when Lo has retired from a well-respected academic career and is intent on uncovering the truth about his family's history and former whereabouts.
 About the Author
Wayman Strother was a professor and head of the department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst for more than twenty years. Prior to that, he earned bachelors' degrees in secondary education and mathematics from Jackstonville State College in Alabama, a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and a doctorate, also in mathematics, from Tulane University. Wayman served as the principal of a school in Collinsville, Alabama, where he also taught, and headed the math department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he was the Buckingham Research Professor. He was also a genealogist, carpenter, and mechanical gadget enthusiast, and collected music of Sand Mountain. He died in June 2002 in Naples, Florida.
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