Author Talk: Shelli Altopp Miller with Where Your Treasure Lies
It is the mid-1990s in the Eastern Kentucky Appalachian Mountains. Candy Ratledge is a confident single woman with a sense of place and purpose. After becoming pregnant in high school and dropping out, she earned a G.E.D. and then attended community college to become a Certified Nurses' Aide. She has a stable job, her own trailer nestled in her kin's holler, her parents next door to keep her little boy, Emmett, and a handsome man pursuing her.
Dean is a handsome outsider from Lexington who finds Candy attractive and refreshing. She initially does not trust him because he's from the big city and older than her. On their second date he confides in her that he's having doubts about his faith. As the story unfolds and the ground beneath them shifts, their individual struggles create a quick intimacy between Candy and Dean.
Told in Candy's Appalachian vernacular with colloquialisms woven throughout, Where Your Treasure Lies explores themes of cultural norms and identity, betrayal, regional history, family conflict, faith, addiction, forgiveness, and what one truly needs to be content.
Shelli Altopp Miller is a fun-loving, down-to-earth, positive thinker with lots of stories to share. She is a clinical social worker who enjoys cycling, hiking, writing, and traveling in her free time. She has contributed to various blogs, small publications and military spouse newsletters over the years. Though she has lived in eight states and Japan, she considers the Blue Ridge Mountains her spiritual home. She has been married to Phil for thirty-one years and together they have two adult children who reside in Glenville.
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