Book description
Set in the fictional mining town of Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, Sister
Mine is told in the wry, honest and sometimes heartbreakingly poignant
voice of Shae-Lynn Penrose, an offbeat ex-cop and now sole proprietor of
the local cab company. Two years previously, five of Shae-Lynn's friends
were catapulted into media stardom when the pit in which they were
working exploded. They survived five days underground and emerged as
heroes - but neither they nor their town have been the same since.
Still, things are fine - until Shae-Lynn's kid sister Shannon, presumed
dead, walks back into town. Where has she been for the last seventeen
years? Who is the father of her unborn baby? And why is the mob on her
heels? Shae-Lynn herself, beaten black and blue as a child by her brute
of a miner father, has plenty of her own demons to confront - and one or
two secrets she's never told... With all the heartache of Jodi Picoult,
but served up with a blackly humorous twist and set in the sort of small
working-class town that Karin Slaughter has made so familiar, Sister
Mine is redemptive, embracing - and, above, all, unputdownable. Tawni
O'Dell was born and raised in the Allegheny Mountains of western
Pennsylvania, where she lives with her family: a daughter, 13, and a
son, 10. Fragile Beasts is her fourth novel. Her first, Back Roads, was
an Oprah Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller, her second, Coal
Run, has been bought by the movies and is currently in development.
