Time for another feature on one of my favourite books! This debut novel from M Glenn Taylor introduces us to Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born in West Virginia in 1903 with a lifelong oral affliction and raised on moonshine, snakes, women and the Appalacian foothills. An unforgettable and totally original novel spanning the twentienth century and touching with great energy and sensitivity on issues of race, class, history, exile and the erosion of people, places and traditions by modernity. I guarantee this is a book you'll want to recommend to everyone you know if you read it!
