Andrea Lynn Fekete
Paperback, 228 pages
2nd Edition, October 2018

Waters Run Wild is a smooth ride over rough terrain: mine disasters, union busting, racially motivated violence, hunger and anger and deep-seated grief. In this critically acclaimed story, 18-year-old Jennie and her siblings Ezra, Isaac, Katie, and "Little Bird" Anna May, are growing up in a coal camp in 1920 West Virginia amid the chaos and violence of the famous coal mine war era. The gorgeous Appalachian mountains and worker's rights' struggles are the backdrop of their adventures. During this time of union-busting, violence, and ethnic segregation, somehow they find time for romance, friendship, and laughter amid their grief.

Andrea Fekete’s fiction reflects the poetic, passionate spirit and strength of Appalachian people and nature in flux, the voices of coal dust and rain joining with the general chorus of hard-pressed characters to create some of the most memorable mountain music this side of Lee Smith.