Revenge has a momentum of its own once it curdles in the brain, or perhaps the heart, where it’s more apt to germinate. Lancaster Cooney’s debut novella, Atrophied Mink, is a propulsive, gritty Appalachian revenge story, featuring an unlikely heroine in 14 year old Jacobi, who is hellbent on righting the wrongs in her small town of Lower Guild in Central Kentucky.

Book Review: Atrophied Mink