Cinderland: A Memoir

by Amy Jo Burns

Book Overview

A riveting literary debut about the cost of keeping quiet

Amy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, Pennsylvania, an industrial town humbled by the steel collapse of the 1980s. Instead of the construction booms and twelve-hour shifts her parents' generation had known, the Mercury Amy Jo knew was marred by empty houses, old strip mines, and vacant lots. It wasn't quite a ghost town--only because many people had no choice but to stay...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807052272
• ISBN13: 9780807052273
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"