With a Hammer for My Heart is the story of Lawanda, a precocious, poverty-stricken fifteen-year-old girl from Cardin, Kentucky, who dreams of attending college. When Lawanda's friendship with an alcoholic World War II veteran named Garland is misinterpreted by their fellow townspeople, a tragedy calls her future into question.
- ISBN10 0813159261
- ISBN13 9780813159263
- Publish Date 5 February 2015 (first published 31 December 1983)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint University Press of Kentucky
- Format eBook
- Pages 202
- Language English