In The Coal Mine Shadows

After a coal mine explosion kills her father in 1922, pretty little Mary Margaret Mame Blackwell is not willing to accept her mothers hardscrabble plan for farming burley tobacco in rural West Virginia, but trying to survive in a nearly deserted coal mining town without a father in the early 1900s is anything but easy. Mame yearns for a way out of the sleepy little town of Beckley.