Reviews for Sinners of Sanction County
"Sinners of Sanction County is one of the best story collections to come out of the American South in recent times. Writing in a spare, poetic style that fairly crackles with energy, Charles Dodd White makes his mark as a major new talent as he masterfully explores the raw beauty and pathos of life among tough people caught in bad situations. With this book, he has nailed the coonskin to the wall."
Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff
"Charles Dodd White is an exceptionally talented writer and these stories secure his place as one of Appalachia's best short story writers. He's the real deal."
Ron Rash, author of Burning Bright and Serena
"There is a sureness in these stories that arises from an intimate and absolute understanding of the landscape from which they arise. The characters are true and wholly realized, their confilicts as urgent and as current as the daily news. Not sensationalized but forthrightly told, these stories are of the times as well as the region. Here is contemporary Appalachia."
Chris Holbrook, author of Upheaval and Hell and Ohio
Reviews for Lambs of Men
"Charles Dodd White's Lambs of Men is a beautifully wrought, rigorous work, its language forged in the fiery mind of a true artist. This is literature of admirable pureness and integrity."
Robin Lippincott, author of In the Meantime
"Written in the tradition of Charles Frazier and Ron Rash, Lambs of Men is that most rare of books: a violently beautiful story that is, at heart, a work of prose poetry."
Mark Powell, author of Prodigals and Blood Kin
"Charles Dodd White has written this rich novel of the mountains as though he's been saving every word of it for a lifetime. A book full of blood and beauty and bone, a story that carries the reader through time, through lives, through dirt and fire. This book strikes the reader's heart so deeply that readers will be called back to it again and again. He has written this family and their circumstances with such tender care...A rare book where every sentence delights and startles. It's a small gem that commands the reader's full attention and entire heart."
Crystal Wilkinson, author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street