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 r...
Departing from Appalachia's 150-year-old literary legacy of formula and caricature, West Virginia native Ann Pancake uses the texture of language, an intense attention to place, and complexity of characterization to recreate the region -- its tragic ...
Ann Pancake’s 2007 novel Strange As This Weather Has Been exposed the devastating fallout of mountaintop removal mining on a single West Virginia family. In Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley, a follow-up collection of eleven astonishing novellas...
Ann Pancake s 2007 novel "Strange As This Weather Has Been" exposed the devastating fallout of mountaintop removal mining on a single West Virginia family. In "Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley," a follow-up collection of eleven astonishing novell...