Description
In 2019, Aleena Rowan, adrift in the wake of a failed marriage, receives a box of her father's desk diaries from the years he worked as a coal executive. She expects to find nothing more than the cost of business lunches and meeting notes. Instead, she finds a mysterious name, Sara, scrawled on a slip of paper in her father's handwriting.
Frank Rowan meets Sara Stone while fishing on a frigid January day, and sees her again waiting tables at Otter Creek's only restaurant. It is 1970, and Frank and Sara's relationship grows despite the impossible distance between a New York corner office and a Kentucky coal hollow. Initially, Sara sees Frank as her ticket to a better life, but other forces compete with her dreams - like protecting her town from the increasingly perilous coal slurry dam.
In her debut novel, told from both sides of the coal industry, Isabel Reddy brings to life the conflicts and undercurrents of an Appalachian mining town on the eve of disaster.
Author: Isabel Reddy
Publisher: Belle Isle Books
Published: 06/09/2023
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9781958754061
ISBN10: 1958754064
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural
- Fiction | Romance | Historical | American