The time is the 1960s. The place is the coal mining towns of Pennsylvania. A hostile environment and family dysfunction set a very sad and depressing tone for The Hollow Ground by Natalie S. Harnett. Yet, eleven year old Brigid emerges as a strong main character who elicits emotion and sympathy, and...
The Hollow Ground follows Brigid, an Irish coal miner’s daughter who is running from a hundred year old curse. In the debut novel, the environmental catastrophe of underground mine fires in Pennsylvania coal country mirror the devastation in Brigid’s dysfunctional family. When the ground caves benea...
By Natalie S. Harnett ISBN: 9781250041982 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Thomas Dunne Books Publication Date: May 13, 2014 Format: e-book/Other Format Pages: 336 My Rating: 4.5 Stars A powerful and extraordinary debut novel! THE HOLLOW GROUND dives into total dysfunction of The Howleys, a wo...
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