Night Ride Home

This book tells the story of Keller Hayes, a young man living in a small mining town in Alabama, who has to learn how to make his way in a harsh world during a series of life changing events. Through marriage, childbirth, poverty, and war, Keller must make sense of his life while understanding that suffering and loss are usually inescapable. The cold and damp of the camp seem to soak into each of the characters so that you feel his or her burden seperately and with acute empathy. Coming away from this novel I could almost smell the coal dust in my clothes and sense the indestructable tie that bind one family to another. Covington has the ability to transport the reader into her world and make you never want to leave.

it was about teens in the SOUTH. In the story, Keller matures a lot because he deals with sex, marraige, and death. I think this book is great, but SOUTHENERS will appreciate it more, not Yankees.. HAHA!!