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Barcode37821002560668
LocationMarshall District
TitleMule boy / Andrew Krivak.
AuthorKrivak, Andrew, author.
Call NoFIC KRI
CollectionAdult New Arrivals

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International Standard Book Number 9781954276468
Personal Name Krivak, Andrew, author.
Title Statement Mule boy / Andrew Krivak.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2026
Physical Description 190 pages ; 21 cm.
Associated Language Book tlcgt.
Associated Language Fiction marcgt.
Summary, Etc. "On New Year's Day, 1929, Ondro Prach, the thirteen-year-old son of Slovak immigrants in Pennsylvania coal country, begins a new job as mule boy. He knows the danger-his father died in the mines-but he is proud of his position handling the animal that hauls cartloads of coal from shafts deep within the earth to the surface. After Ondro earns the trust of the miners and the mule in his charge, the room the men are working collapses and their fate is sealed. From that moment onward, Ondro carries the hard memory of that day, a burden that leads to addiction and imprisonment, costing him his family. But, years later, when the miners' loved ones come searching for answers, he finds the strength to share what the men spoke of and prayed for in the pitch black. Told in incantatory prose set to the rhythm of human breath, this sublime novel turns the memento mori into a meditation not only on death but on what it takes to tunnel through darkness and live."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Psychic trauma Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Coal miners Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Drug addiction Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Coal mine accidents Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Pennsylvania Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Coming of age fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.

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