Title: Above the slate
Description: In 1930s Appalachia, Neva and Grady are tested in their marriage by the coal mines which govern their world. While Neva gives birth to their children and tends to their home, Grady is forced into a unionizing struggle which eventually pulls in Neva and the children.
Subjects: Coal miners, Coal mines and mining, Fiction, Married people, Mountain life, Strikes and lockouts, Fiction, historical, general, Married people, fiction, Domestic fiction
Places: Southern Appalachian Region