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Clay's quilt

ISBN: 0345450698
ISBN: 1565123077
Physical Description: 292 pages ; 22 cm print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2001]
Copyright: &copy;2001

House, Silas 1971- (Author).

Summary: Clay Sizemore, a young coal miner from a big family and a small town, never doubts that he will live out his life in the place where he was born. His mother, Anneth, was killed when he was only four, and he never knew his father, but he is surrounded by the people he loves. For Clay, the future is Alma, a passionate young fiddler separated from her abusive husband and estranged from her gospel-singing parents. But the past concerns him, too: given a box of his beloved mother's possessions, he pieces together her troubled history, while his great-uncle pieces a quilt from her clothing. Violence is inescapable in a place where even Clay carries a pretty pearl-handled pistol, and his mother's violent end foreshadows a death that threatens Clay and Alma's happiness together.