River of Earth
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River of Earth is a novel, published in 1940, by the Appalachian author James Still.[1][2]
The book focuses on three years in the life of an Appalachian family as told from the viewpoint of a young boy. The boy watches as his parents are pulled between their meager but independent life as farmers, and the uncertain promise of prosperity offered by the mining camps in Appalachia.
