LITTLE SPARROW is Sarah’s debut novel. It is a literary fiction stitched with poetry, Appalachian history, and romance in spirit with Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain and Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing. Like these enthralling tales, it is a luminous evocation that begs the big screen.

On the brink of ruin, can Mary protect her daughter and save her home? This tale, shaped behind closed doors and drawn curtains, is a mother’s perilous journey tucked within the Appalachian Mountains — awash in spirits, rooted in coal, holding buried secrets.

Having done what she must with her hot-knuckled-husband, can Mary carve her mark onto the back of prohibition? Keeping company with outcasts — her drunkard father, a cross-dressed doctor, a Black farmer with no buyers for his crop, a serpent healer, and a daughter born with a caul — can Mary outwit the law and become the finest bootlegger the state has ever seen?

This adventure of revenge and redemption runs on moonshine, motor oil, and blood. Here men know how to tear apart cars and rebuild them. Women know how to put up gardens and birth babies. Here, your pride is in your people. And loyalty is everything. As Mary learns to love again — including herself — LITTLE SPARROW is a reminder of what it means to return home to our deepest selves.

Having a deep appreciation for artistic collaboration, with permission, Sarah has woven Appalachian poet, Patsy Kisner’s work, through the prose of LITTLE SPARROW, blending female voices onto the page.