Running on Red Dog Road, Drema Hall Berkheimer
Running on Red Dog Road, Drema Hall Berkheimer
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Running on Red Dog Road
And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood

Author: Drema Hall Berkheimer

Narrator: Bailey Carr

Unabridged: 6 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/17/2017

Synopsis

Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that reads like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, poetry-writing hobos, and traveling carnivals, and through it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family of saints and sinners whose lives defy the stereotypes. Just as she defies her own.

Running on Red Dog Road is proof that truth is stranger than fiction, especially when it comes to life and faith in an Appalachian childhood.

About Drema Hall Berkheimer

Drema Hall Berkheimer was born in a coal camp in Appalachia, the child of a West Virginia coal miner who was killed in the mines, a Rosie the Riveter mother, and devout Pentecostal grandparents. Her tales of hobnobbing with gypsies, moonshiners, snake handlers, hobos, and faith healers are published in numerous online and print journals. She is a member of West Virginia Writers, Salon Quatre, and The Writer's Garret. A longtime resident of Dallas, she lives with her husband and a neurotic cat that takes after her. Her husband is mostly normal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessaka on October 06, 2018

What a delightful, warmhearted book about a family living in the the Appalachian Mountains or so I thought for the longest time. The author, Drema Hall Berkheimer, paints a romantic view of her family life back in the 1940s, and who’s to say that it wasn’t like that? Her grandfather was a Pentecosta......more

Goodreads review by H (no longer expecting notifications) Balikov on March 05, 2022

"Scratch any West Virginian a few layers down and you're bond to find a vein of coal. Yours runs deep. You were born in a coal camp at Penman, West Virginia, on November 17, 1939. I helped you into this world. Good thing. By the time the doctor came you'd been looking around all big-eyed for more th......more

Goodreads review by Mary on January 25, 2024

My first religious publisher imprint. I was about a third of the way through, went to pick the book up, and saw the Zondervan icon on the back, and if I weren't enjoying the book so much, would've stopped at that, like a vampire faced with a head of stinky garlic. I'm glad I kept reading. Berkheimer......more

Goodreads review by ♥Milica♥ on April 13, 2023

Oh this was just beautiful!!! From the second I started listening to it, I was hooked. Some of this because of the interesting story, and some thanks to the perfectly chosen narrator whose accent is music to my ears. I've always wanted to visit Appalachia, something about it has appealed to me from a......more

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