- Ukrainian Americans, Male friendship, Ex-convicts, Family violence
"Coal Run is a community of ghosts and memories. After a mining explosion took the lives of so many men and transformed their families, the reverberations are still being felt in the generation of survivors thirty years later.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and bleak.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Tawni O'Dell
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 354
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group, Taylor & Francis Group, Penguin Audio
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781435293014
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Tawni O'Dell, born and raised in the coal-mining region of Indiana, Pennsylvania, is an American novelist. She is the *New York Times* bestselling author of *Fragile Beasts*, *Sister Mine*, *Coal Run*, and *Back Roads*, which was an Oprah's Book Club pick in March 2000. Her work has been translated into 15 languages and published in over 30 countries. The first in her family to attend college, she graduated from Indiana High School and then from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism. She lived for many years in the Chicago area before moving back to Pennsylvania, where she now lives with her two children. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawni_O'Dell)
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