narrative_location the unquiet earth
A novel is a long narrative , normally in prose , which describes fictional characters and events , usually in the form of a sequential story . Appalachia is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of ___MASK48___ to northern Alabama , Mississippi and Georgia . While the ___MASK99___ stretch from Belle Isle ( Newfoundland and Labrador ) in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama , the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and southern portions of the range . As of the 2010 United States Census , the region was home to approximately 25 million people . Denise Giardina is a novelist . Her book " Storming Heaven " was a Discovery Selection of the Book - of - the - Month Club and received the 1987 W . D . Weatherford Award for the best published work about the Appalachian South . " The Unquiet ___MASK56___ " received an American Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award for fiction . Her 1998 novel " Saints and Villains " was awarded the ___MASK10___ Book Review fiction prize and was semifinalist for the International Dublin Literary Award . Jointly presented by the Southern Regional Council and the University of ___MASK21___ Libraries , the Lillian Smith Book Awards honor those authors who , through their outstanding writing about the American South , carry on Smith ' s legacy of elucidating the condition of racial and social inequity and proposing a vision of justice and human understanding . Fiction is the classification for any story or ___MASK39___ derived from imagination  in other words , not based strictly on history or fact . Fiction can be expressed in a variety of formats , including writings , live performances , films , television programs , animations , video games , and role - playing games , though the term originally and most commonly refers to the narrative forms of literature ( see " literary " fiction ), including the novel , novella , short story , and play . Fiction constitutes an act of creative invention , so that faithfulness to reality is not typically assumed ; in other words , fiction is not expected to present only characters who are actual people or descriptions that are factually true . The context of fiction is generally open to interpretation , due to fiction ' s freedom from any necessary embedding in reality ; however , some fictional works are claimed to be , or marketed as , historically or factually accurate , complicating the traditional distinction between fiction and non - fiction . Fiction is a classification or category , rather than a specific mode or genre , unless used in a narrower sense as a synonym for a particular literary fiction form . The Unquiet ___MASK56___ is Denise Giardina ' s third novel . It was published in 1992 and won the W . D . Weatherford Award that year .