2nd Edition! New material! Jennie, 18, and her siblings Ezra, Isaac, Katie, and "Little Bird" grow up in a coal camp in 1920 West Virginia, amid chaos & violence of the coal mine war era. During this turbulent time of union-busting and racial tension, WV is like the wild West. Love, strugglen and grief color their young lives as they come of age.
Auflage
2nd New Prologue, Epilogue, and Additional Material ed.
Sprache
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
Maße
Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 133 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-692-19745-5 (9780692197455)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Andrea Fekete is a novelist and poet. She is granddaughter to Mexican and Hungarian immigrants and a native of the coalfields, born and raised in Buffalo Creek, West Virginia. In 2016, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation funded her three-week stay at the famous artist retreat, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She earned her MA from Marshall University and MFA in Creative Writing from WV Wesleyan College. She sometimes teaches English and literature.
