How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things: A Novel (edit title/settings)

by Joe Jackson (?) (edit contributors)

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In the waning days of one of the most unrecognized American exoduses of the twentieth-century, millions of broken people have left the strip mines of Appalachia in search of better things. In 1961, two of these yearning souls-Dahlia Jean Coker, the teenage daughter of a sluttish mother and a... read more

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MAMA ALWAYS SAID that somebody'd come along and shut my mouth for me someday if I didn't learn to shut it myself.

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Dewey: 813.54

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Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics
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Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction
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