{"product_id":"the-past-is-never-a-novel","title":"The Past Is Never: A Novel","description":"**WINNER of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction**\n**WINNER of the Mississippi Author Award for Adult Fiction selected by the Mississippi Library Association**\n**WINNER of the 2019 Mississippi Institute of Arts \u0026amp; Letters Award for Fiction**\n**WINNER of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction**\n**Finalist for the 2019 Colorado Book Awards for Literary Fiction**\n\n\"An ode to William Faulkner. . . . As Southern as it gets.\"—Deep South Magazine\n\nA compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction, deftly weaving together local legends, family secrets, and the search for a missing child.\nSiblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it's the Devil's place, a place that's been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer days are scorching hot and they can't resist cooling off in the dark, bottomless water. Until the day six-year-old Pansy vanishes. Not drowned, not lost . . . simply gone. When their father disappears as well, Bert and Willet leave their childhoods behind to try and hold their broken family together.\n\nYears pass with no sign, no hope of ever finding Pansy alive, and as surely as their mother died of a broken heart, Bert and Willet can't move on. So when clues surface drawing them to the remote tip of Florida, they drop everything and drive south. Deep in the murky depths of the Florida Everglades they may find the answer to Pansy's mysterious disappearance . . . but truth, like the past, is sometimes better left where it lies.\n\nPerfect for fans of Flannery O'Connor and Dorothy Allison, The Past Is Never is an atmospheric, haunting story of myths, legends, and the good and evil we carry in our hearts.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1510747818\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1510747818.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Quay Tyson, Tiffany\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43494243631165,"sku":"BVV.1510747818.A","price":7.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1510747818-0.jpg?v=1787265714","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-past-is-never-a-novel","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}