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Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio. It is the poorest road, in the poorest county, in the poorest region of the state. To make things worse, the name Hickam is synonymous with trouble. Jimmy Lee hails from a heathen mix of thieves, moonshiners, drunkards, and general anti-socials that for decades have clung to both the hardscrabble hills and the iron bars of every jail cell in the region. This life, Jimmy Lee believes, is his destiny, someday working with his drunkard father at the sawmill, or sitting next to his arsonist brother in the penitentiary.

Born and raised in idyllic Sullivan's Island, Susan Hayes navigated through her turbulent childhood with humor, spunk, and characteristic Southern sass. But years later, she is a conflicted woman with an unfaithful husband, a sometimes resentful teenage daughter, and a heart that aches with painful, poignant memories. And as Susan faces her uncertain future, she realizes that she must go back to her past. To the beachfront house where her sister welcomes her with open arms.

"Irma vit dans une vallée entourée de montagnes. Les montagnes sont habillées d’épaisses forêts. Elle habite dans une maison avec son grand- père Nonno. Irma aime les sons, tous les sons. Dès qu’elle le peut, elle part se promener pour écouter et en enregistrer des nouveaux. Avec les sons d’Irma, Nonno fabrique des petites automates, les automassons. Jusqu’à l’arrivée de Monsieur Industrior... La petite glaneuse de sons est une fable écologique et politique pour les petites oreilles dans lequel Irma se trouve confrontée à la disparition totale de son écosystème sonore. Le bruit blanc que produisent les machines recouvre tout.