The Thursday Channel: Book Club: The Coal Tattoo (Part 1 of 3)

Official publisher description:

In World War II-era rural Kentucky, twenty-two-year-old Easter and Anneth, her teenaged sister, lose their parents young, so they must raise each other. Easter finds her life in the Pentecostal Holiness church and its music, while Anneth dances and drinks in less-than-holy honky-tonks. Will the differences in their young lives and in their very natures tear them apart or will the bond of the sisters prevail? In lucid prose with an ear for the voice of the sisters’ time and place, Silas House brings readers a rich and moving story of coal country.

The Coal Tattoo was named The Appalachian Book of the Year for 2005, and became a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize.

Our guest discussion leader will be Mike Ford from Rural Action.  The first 20 people to sign up will receive a free copy of the book, courtesy of an Athens Foundation grant.