In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.
- ISBN10 0374345805
- ISBN13 9780374345808
- Publish Date 2 September 2008 (first published 1 September 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 145
- Language English