Does Clay's tight-knit, extended family enable or hinder his search for his mother, Anneth, and his quest for meaning in his life? In his New York Times best-selling novel Silas House introduced himself as an important voice for Appalachia and, indeed, for the entire rural South.

Discuss how your own experiences within an extended family relate to Clay's. She tells Clay that a family should live right together. When Clay told his Aunt Easter he was moving out of her house, she cried until her eyes were red and swollen.

The book appeared briefly on the New York Times bestseller list and became a word-of-mouth sleeper hit, especially in the Southern United States.
This was House’s first published novel, it begins some time after the events in …

Discuss how your own experiences within an extended family relate to Clay's.

Whether working, playing, laughing, praying, driving, crying, singing, fighting, dancing, hollering, or loving, these people do it passionately and with every fiber of their beings; these people LIVE. Clay’s Quilt is set in Appalachia during the 1980’s when Gen Xers were young, everyone smoked and Lucinda Williams sounded best in a loud vehicle being driven very fast with the windows down. Does Clay's tight-knit, extended family enable or hinder his search for his mother, Anneth, and his quest for meaning in his life?

Clay's Quilt is a 2001 novel by Silas House, first published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and reissued by Ballantine/Random House in 2003. She tells Clay that a family should live right together. When Clay told his Aunt Easter he was moving out of her house, she cried until her eyes were red and swollen. Clay's Quilt is a powerful novel lovingly and masterfully pieced from the lives of the residents of Free Creek, Kentucky.
He has some snippets of memory of his life-loving, nurturing mother, but she died (was murdered) when he was only three years old, and he never knew his father. In Clay's Quilt, Silas House's spirited debut novel set in the hills and hollows of Southern Appalachia, Clay Sizemore grows up knowing there are pieces missing from the story of his past.