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Michael Farris Smith is an award-winning writer whose novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, NPR, Southern Living, Garden & Gun, Oprah Magazine, Book Riot, and numerous other outlets, and have been named Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. He has also written the feature-film ...
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- Salvage This World (2023)
“With a cast of fierce, masterfully drawn characters set...
- Nick
author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis “It is a brave and ambitious...
- Blackwood
Smith’s meditation on the darkness of the human heart offers...
- The Fighter
“Michael Farris Smith has inherited the rough south of Larry...
- Desperation Road
Tom Franklin, NYT bestselling author of Crooked Letter,...
- Rivers
You can add Michael Farris Smith’s name to the list.” James...
- The Hands of Strangers
“Michael Farris Smith’s The Hands of Strangers is a...
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Michael Farris Smith is an American writer from Mississippi. As of 2023, Smith has published seven novels: The Hands of Strangers (2011), Rivers (2013), Desperation Road (2017), The Fighter (2018), Blackwood (2020), Nick (2021), and Salvage This World (2023).
Apr 23, 2023 · In “Salvage This World,” Michael Farris Smith bolsters his reputation as an intoxicating literary stylist. For Southern writers (Smith is from Mississippi), a comparison to Cormac McCarthy...
Nov 8, 2022 · Michael Farris Smith is an award-winning writer whose novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, NPR, Southern Living, Garden & Gun, Oprah Magazine, Book Riot, and numerous other outlets, and have been named Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. He has also written the feature-film ...
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“With a cast of fierce, masterfully drawn characters set loose in gorgeous, hurricane-blasted landscapes, Salvage this World by Michael Farris Smith is riveting: I couldn't put it down.” Laird Hunt, National Book Award-nominated author of Zorrie and Neverhome
“Michael Farris Smith has inherited the rough south of Larry Brown and created his own rugged terrain. The Fighter is a spare, powerful, beautifully composed work by a writer who can probe the dark side of the American dream like no other.” Bill Cusumano, Square Books, Oxford, MS.
Apr 25, 2023 · In Michael Farris Smith's latest "riveting" epic, a young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory to find the girl who may be the region's savior.
