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Dawn Jewell is fifteen. She is restless, curious, and wry. She lives in eastern Kentucky with her addict mother and her Mamaw, whose stance against the coal companies has earned her the community's ire. She listens to Black Flag, speaks her mind, and joins her grandmother's fight against mountaintop removal mining almost in spite of herself. Dawn decides whether to save a mountain or save herself; be ruled by love or ruled by anger; remain in the land of her birth or run for her life.