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Winner of the Southern Book Prize for Fiction
An NPR Best Book of 2024
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Southern Book of 2024
Co-winner of the 2024 Weatherford Award in Fiction
Audie Award for Best Fiction
A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of…
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A gripping retelling of the Battle of Blair Mountain. Told through the eyes of a coal camp doctor and his young son, this novel personalizes the largest labor uprising in American history. After years of contention between coal miners and companies, armed conflict erupted in 1921. A multi-racial collection of 10,000 coal miners and labor supporters faced 3,000 lawmen and union busters and, eventually, the US Army. Populated by real-life figures such as Mother Jones and Smiling Sid Hatfield, this winner of the Southern Book Prize explores the lengths to which people will go to in the desperate pursuit of…
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