
- Island Books
The Coalwood Way


Key Metrics
- Homer Hickam
- Island Books
- Mass Market Paperbacks
- 9780440237167
- 6.84 X 4.48 X 1.13 inches
- 0.43 pounds
- Biography & Autobiography > Science & Technology
- English

Book Description
It is fall 1959. Homer Sonny Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, and the town of Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads.
The strains can be felt within the Hickam home, where Homer Sr. struggles to save the mine, and his wife, Elsie, is feeling increasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople. Sonny, despite a blossoming relationship with a local girl, finds his own mood darkened by an unexplainable sadness.
Then, with the holidays approaching, trouble at the mine and the arrival of a beautiful young outsider bring unexpected changes in both the Hickam family and the town of Coalwood ... as this luminous memoir moves toward its poignant conclusion.
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