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Kevin Canty tells a story based on a real incident that begins with a disastrous fire in an isolated silver-mining town in Idaho in the 1970s. Everyone in town had a friend, lover, brother, or a husband killed in the mine. The Underworld traces the lives of the handful of survivors and their loved ones—a young widow with twin children, a college student trying to make a life for himself in another town, a life-long hard-rock miner—as they struggle to come to terms with the loss. It’s a tough, hardworking, hard-drinking town, a town of prostitutes and priests and bar fights, but nobody is tough enough to get through this undamaged.
This is a powerful and unforgettable tale about small-town lives and the healing power of love in the midst of suffering.
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“Paul Michael Garcia narrates this fictionalized account of the aftermath of a real-life 1970s underground fire that killed 91 miners. With a sense of detachment, Garcia keeps the emotions close to his chest and the action and observations close to the bone…It’s a very American story, and Garcia’s reading is as hard, dark, and honest as the mountains that the townsfolk depend on. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“An excellent and terse account…Canty keeps his descriptions to a minimum, depending instead on taut stretches of introspection and screenplay-ready dialogue.”
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“Canty’s real genius lies in his subtly drawn depiction of the emotional and psychological landscape of this ‘big incomprehensible thing.’”
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“A masterly story of heartbreak and struggle against fate and bad luck while heroic themes of love and forgiveness carry this memorable novel.”
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“Canty does a fine job of showing how disaster can lacerate a place or people without utterly destroying hope.”
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“Canty has a gift for turning the commonplace into the extraordinary by asking the right questions and allowing the truth to unfold.”
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“Stunning and deeply moving…The voices of these characters are as memorable as their struggle to keep going in the face of tragedy.”
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“Any reader will empathize with his sometimes flawed, sometimes valiant people, as they wrestle with the perplexities of social class, family, and love.”
— David Gates, author of A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me -
“A timely reminder of the tremendously complicated questions communities in the American West face…These are superbly drawn people in an impeccably told tale.”
— Antonya Nelson, author of Funny Once
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New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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Library Journal Notable Book of Best Adult Books for Teens
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Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award
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About Kevin Canty
Kevin Canty is the author of several novels and three short-story collections and has been published in the New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, and the New York Times Magazine.
About Richard Powers
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory, and Bewilderment was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.