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Luci Christian
The John Gardner Fiction Book Award, 2015
Appalachian Book of the Year (Fiction), 2014
Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
"We walk on fire or air, so Daddy liked to say. Basement floors too hot to touch. Steaming green lawns in the dead of winter. Sinkholes, quick and sudden, plunging open at your feet."
The underground mine fires ravaging Pennsylvania coal country have forced 11-year-old Brigid Howley and her family to seek refuge with her estranged grandparents, the formidable Gram and the black lung-stricken Gramp. Tragedy is no stranger to the Howleys, a proud Irish-American clan who takes strange pleasure in the "curse" laid upon them generations earlier by a priest who ran afoul of the Molly Maguires. The weight of this legacy rests heavily on a new generation, when Brigid, already struggling to keep her family together, makes a grisly discovery in a long-abandoned bootleg mine shaft. In the aftermath, decades-old secrets threaten to prove just as dangerous to the Howleys as the burning, hollow ground beneath their feet.
Inspired by real-life events in Centralia and Carbondale, where devastating coal mine fires irrevocably changed the lives of residents, The Hollow Ground is an extraordinary debut with an atmospheric, voice-driven narrative and an indelible sense of place. Lovers of literary fiction will find in Harnett's young, determined protagonist a character as heartbreakingly captivating as Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.
©2014 Natalie S. Harnett (P)2014 Audible, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Wonderful
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Depressing story
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Totally Entertained
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An outstanding debut novel set in Pennsylvania in the 60’s that allows the reader an appreciation for nature, coal mining and the people of that area and time. This is a fiction based at a time of a true event in American history - when the land and the properties above them became compromised due to sink holes and underground coal fires. The fires in that area are still smolder today.
This coming of age story told through the view of 11 year old Brigid Hawley is so heartfelt. Brigid’s family is falling apart as the ground gives way. Losing her haven and care-giving aunt to underground fire, her parents are forced to take the family to the home of her grandparents where they are not welcomed with opened arms.
Each member of the family seems consumed by their numerous issues. Once forced to return to the origin of their dysfunctionality, their childhood homes, Brigid’s parents lose all semblance of being care givers. It’s an interesting pattern of the progression of parental dominoes.
Brigid really pulled at my heartstrings throughout as she strives to just want to act her age. There were times in this book I held my breath for I was so worried for her. The scene where Brigid and her friend Marisol meet the boys at the abandoned house is just one tense moment after another…, So well written. The story consumed me. Not always a happy story but it authentic. The setting of the ground burning and all of the fallout from it just fascinated me.
As for narration Luci Christian was just spot on with numerous of her performances. Speaking for a moxy 11 year old and a bitter mother and a cantankerous old grandmother has never been done better.
Natalie Harnett – I’ll be watching you.
Living on Briquettes
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slow book
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Good Choice
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great story.
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I enjoyed learning about, but was disturbed by, the underground fires and how cave-ins occurred randomly. I'd read about this before, but I thought the author portrayed quite well how this was simple a way of life for the people of this area.
Coal country Pennsylvania in the 1960's
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coal mine disaster in Carbondale and Centrailia
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had to work to stay with it...
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