rural families

Three generations of a West Indian family gather together on a jitney that takes them and their wares to the local market.

Ree Dolly, a sixteen-year-old living in poverty in the Ozarks, sets out alone to find her father after he puts the family home up for bond on drug charges and disappears with the court date swiftly approaching.

Presents the 1952 novel in which Cal and Aron, twin brothers in early twentieth-century California, act out a modern-day version of the Bible story of Cain and Abel.

The death of Vernon Proctor, the oldest of three illiterate brothers living on primitive farm in upstate New York, sets off a wave of suspicion and accusations in the community, and complicates the work of state trooper Del Graham, who must look at Creed and the feeble-minded Audie as suspects.

Her idyllic teen years on a British Colombia dairy farm with her mother and brother irrevocably changed by the arrival of a draft dodger, Natalie Ward remembers years later the impact he had on the morals and beliefs of their community.

A retelling of Emily Bronte's classic tale in which Mr. Lockwood, forced by a storm to spend the night at the home of the somber Heathcliff, uncovers a tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire moors.