Set in present day West Virginia, Ann Pancake’s debut novel, Strange As This Weather Has Been, tells the story of a coal mining family— a couple and their four children— living through the latest mining boom and dealing with the mountaintop removal and strip mining that is ruining what is left of...
Went out early that morning to the flat place by the creek where she practiced and saw straightaway the orange dirt they’d laid over the hole ripped up and sprayed. Without getting close enough to tell if the little body was gone, she wheeled and ran to the house to fetch her uncle. If they had t...