Clay's Quilt

Clay's Quilt by House, Silas. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781565123076.

On a bone-chilling New Years Day, when all the mountain roads are slick with ice, Clays mother, Anneth, insists on leaving her husband. She packs her things, and with three-year-old Clay in tow, they inch their way toward her hometown along the treacherous mountain roads. That journey ends in the death of Clays mother. Its a day that comes to haunt her only son, whos left without a family and a history. This is the story of how Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love with his town but unsure of his place within it, finds a family to call his own. And its the story of the people who become part of the life he shapes: Aunt Easter, always filled with a sense of foreboding and bound to her faith above all; Uncle Paul, quietly producing quilt after quilt; Dreama, beautiful and flighty; Evangeline, the untameable daughter of a famous gospel singer; and Alma, the fiddler whose song wends its way into Clays heart. Together, they all help Clay to fashion a quilt of a life from what treasured pieces are around him. Authentic and moving, Clays Quilt is both the story of a young mans journey and of Appalachian people struggling to hold on to their heritage.