Silver Bottle

<p>West Virginia is hidden and nothing is more hidden than the lives of its women. Four different women <strong>speak their piece</strong> in this novel:</p><p> </p><p>       <strong>Lorraine</strong>: a daughter abandoned by her mother.</p><p>       <strong>Carmen</strong>: the mother who tries to explain.</p><p>       <strong>Jenna</strong>: the young daughter who in a desperate effort to alleviate her mother's pain falls flat when confronted by an unexpected reality.</p><p>       <strong>Lizzie</strong>: the furious source who though dead lives and moves within each relationship the strength of her memory spanning generations.</p><p> </p><p>   A <strong>tour de force</strong> of Appalachian life beginning in the early 1900's unto the present day. <strong>SILVER BOTTLE</strong> is a must read for fans of Appalachian fiction and the women who struggle within the confines of a culture which not only resists change but resists them.</p>