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Published
May 1996
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General Fiction General Fiction
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450

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When Melinda Kregg, a young southern belle, witnesses the bloody Kentucky mining strikes of the 1930s, her innocence is shattered. This saga chronicles her joys, sorrows, and ministrations to the social wound on her journey through the maelstrom of the twentieth century. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Awarded the 1995 Lillian Smith Book Award.

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First Edition May 1996 Harvest ISBN 0156003880
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May 1995 Nan A. Talese ISBN 038547699X
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Dec 1995 Wheeler ISBN 156895266X
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