Christopher Scotton (Get this book) Debut author Scotton sets a captivating modern morality tale in Kentucky's coal country, 1985.With the small-town aura of "To Kill a Mockingbird", a man reflects on the summer he learned that tradition, greed, class, race and sexual orientation can make for murder. Multiple stories are at play in the coal town of Medgar: Bubba Boyd, the boorish son of a coal baron, is raping the landscape; local opposition leader and popular hairstylist Paul Pierce's homosexuality is used to attack his environmental position; and the narrator, Kevin, grieving the death of his younger brother, arrives at age 14 to stay with his widowed grandfather. A powerful epic of people and place, loss and love, reconciliation and redemption.--Kirkus
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