The Evolution of the Gospelettes

The Evolution of the Gospelettes tells the story of a gifted family in a rapidly changing world, as older faith is challenged by more inclusive belief. This is Appalachian storytelling at its best and truest, where loyalty and love endure and prevail.

~Robert Morgan, author of Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe

The litmus test for a great novel is this: the reader who begins its first page is different from the person who finishes its last page. Tammy Oberhausen achieves exactly that in The Evolution of the Gospelettes. Like the Holliman family of musicians, especially Jeannie Holliman—singer, songwriter, and bandleader—readers will be profoundly changed for the better by this unforgettable and irresistible story. 

~Lorraine M. López, author of Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories

Your heart will raise to the sky a psalm of thanksgiving for this gift of a book, a heart-gripping chronicle of a family's fraught journey through time, travail, faith, and enduring love, on a river of song.

~Jeff Zentner, award-winning author of Colton Gentry's Third Act

Nuanced, funny, and hugely entertaining look at faith, doubt, hypocrisy, and holiness.... A remarkable debut.

~Silas House, author of Lark Ascending: A Novel

Oberhausen writes with such fierce, tender regard for her characters, even for—especially for—the broken ones. At turns sweeping and intimate, ambitious and unassuming, The Evolution of the Gospelettes is a brilliant debut.

~Holly Goddard Jones, author of The Salt Line