num_pages: 175
description: In the compelling memoir, Rhoda Warren, whose father was a miner, introduces us to Letcher, KY in 1930. She takes us inside this isolated community, whose denizens lived difficult, poverty-stricken lives. This is the story of the Bailey family's escape from the grueling Corbin Glow mines to find a better life in Letcher--"The prettiest place in the world." Rhoda Warren's account is three-dimensional: with humor and warmth, but without sentimentality. She recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and "family values" buttressed and sustained them.
language: English
title: Appalachian Mountain Girl: Coming of Age in Coal Mine Country
titlecomplete: Appalachian Mountain Girl: Coming of Age in Coal Mine Country
genres: Family, Biography, History, Coming Of Age, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 139
publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers