Book
The Coffin Quilt
by Ann Rinaldi
Buy the book from:
Fanny McCoy grows up along the Tug Fork as distrust between her family and the Hatfields hardens into a feud. She watches Roseanna McCoy fall in love with Johnse Hatfield, a relationship that offers a brief possibility of reconciliation but instead becomes another source of accusation, abandonment and revenge. As killings and reprisals multiply, Fanny must decide how much of her family’s version of events she can accept.
Told through a young witness who survives long enough to question inherited hatred, the novel treats the feud as a human catastrophe rather than picturesque folklore. Domestic spaces, courtship and family loyalty are repeatedly invaded by public violence, and the coffin quilt becomes a record of deaths that adults convert into obligations for the next generation.
More by the author
Other books by Ann Rinaldi
