These twelve stories set in Appalachia are brought to life by characters who struggle through their lives, proud and tough, like the land itself.

A farmer wonders what is stealing his hens' eggs. A baited trap catches an unexpected thief.

A pawnshop owner trades on the stolen goods of local meth addicts, including his own nephew-who is doing more than just stealing from his parents.

A woman from a small town marries an outsider. Her love for him battles with her suspicions that he is the source of the fires ravaging the Smoky Mountains.

A young boy, the child of meth-addicted parents, sits in the remains of a crashed plane and lovingly tends to a pair of frozen corpses.

This brilliant collection of short stories by a New York Timesbestselling author and a master of the form, will burn bright in your mind long after you have finished reading.

'Burning Brightfinds a narrow sweet spot between Raymond Carver's minimalism and William Faulkner's Gothic.' Washington Post