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""Spellbinding ... a tale of ancestry that doubles as a story of this very country. I could not put this one down.”—Sarah Viren

“Jeremy Jones' Cipher introduces us to a lost ancestor’s coded diaries and brings them to life with prose as intricate and revelatory as the secrets they contain, unraveling the vivid, conflicted world of William Thomas Prestwood—a nineteenth-century farmer, philosopher, and flawed human being. With lyrical precision and unflinching honesty, Jones transforms archival fragments into a haunting meditation on history, inheritance, and the stories we choose to tell about ourselves.” —Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders ""Cipher is part memoir and part mystery, part how to and part dare not. I've never read a book this deliciously dark, scathingly funny, and deeply felt. The fact that Jeremy Jones is able to make a centuries-old mystery so relevant to our lives and times is truly a wonder. Readers will not forget Cipher, not the journey this story took to land in Jeremy Jones's hands, nor their own trembling hands as they rapturously turned its pages."" —Wiley Cash, author of When Ghosts Come Home ""Spellbinding ... a tale of ancestry that doubles as a story of this very country. I could not put this one down.” —Sarah Viren

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Jeremy B. Jones is the author of the memoir Cipher as well as Bearwallow, which was named the 2014 Appalachian Book of the Year in nonfiction and awarded gold in memoir in the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards. His essays appear in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Oxford American, Appalachian Reckoning, and the Iowa Review. Born and raised in the mountains of North Carolina, Jeremy earned his MFA from the University of Iowa and now serves as an associate professor of English at Western Carolina University. He lives in Hendersonville, NC.

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