Have I read this before: Nope.

Review: I don’t know if it’s just because I’m super emotional right now (Jazzy’s not doing great), but this book really got to me. You get to spend a lot of time with Huw and his family and the town they live in is almost like a person itself and you see the effects that mining has not only on the family but on the town itself. It’s a very heartbreaking story. 

Favorite Part: This beautiful quote:

“There is patience in the Earth to allow us to go into her, and dig, and hurt with tunnels and shafts, and if we put back the flesh we have torn from her and so make good what we have weakened, she is content to let us bleed her. But when we take, and leave her weak where we have taken, she has a soreness, and an anger that we should be so cruel to her and so thoughtless of her comfort. So she waits for us, and finding us, bears down, and bearing down, makes us a part of her, flesh of her flesh, with our clay in place of the clay we thoughtlessly have shoveled away.”

Rating: 6/10