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MFA English Alumn and Author Sarah Beth Childers writes ‘Prodigals: A Sister’s Memoir of Appalachia and Loss’
As she lay in her driveway watching dragonflies eat gnats and swallows eat dragonflies, she realized that her grieving process would include writing about not only the tragedy of his death, but the uncertainty of his life and how undiagnosed mental illness and religion had played a role in both.
