Consider the Flowers of the Field

Consider the Flowers of the Field is a novel-in-progress about four daughters who
are raised in deep-hollow Appalachia. When their parents finish rehab and prison stints,
they start their own church and force the girls to participate in the ministry. The story
follows the girls into adulthood and examines the ways each is affected by history,
environment, birth order, memory, secrets, and religion. One daughter renounces her
parents and God and spends her life in academia and social work, one takes up the
preaching mantle, one is the promiscuous, drug-addled antithesis of what her parents
stand for, and one daughter is born after her parents start their new life so she has no
concept of how things used to be. Consider the Flowers of the Field asks, “How do we
transcend, embrace, or reject the dogma of our youth?”