Winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Prize.
A new Southern gothic thriller from the winner of the 2012 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction.
In the Summer of 1866, Jacob Ballard, a former Union soldier and spy, is dispatched by the War Department in Washington City to infiltrate the isolated North Carolina mountain community where he was born and find the serial killer responsible for the deaths of Union veterans. Based on true events, That Bright Land is the story of a violent and fragile nation in the wake of the Civil War and a man who must exorcise his own savage demons while tracking down another.
- ISBN10 163026976X
- ISBN13 9781630269760
- Publish Date 28 July 2016 (first published 14 June 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Turner Publishing Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English