TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - German Americans
KW - labor strikes
KW - baseball
KW - coke industry
KW - Ku Klux Klan
KW - alcoholism
KW - child abuse
KW - saints
KW - coal industry
AU - Marian Szczepanski
AB - The Sweeney women—mother Clare, and daughters Norah, Deirdre, and Katie—channel St. Barbara in surviving Fin, the family’s abusive patriarch. An immigrant coal miner, Fin battles the Frick Coke Company and strike-breakers from the Ku Klux Klan.
C1 - 1920s-40s
C3 - Fayette County; Uniontown; Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; William Penn Hotel; North Side; East Allegheny; Troy Hill; H. J. Heinz Company plant; Point Breeze; Clayton (Henry Clay Frick family residence); Oakland; Cathe
C4 - Historical; Labor
CY - [St. Charles, MO]
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - East Allegheny is referred to as Deutschtown.
N2 - The Sweeney women—mother Clare, and daughters Norah, Deirdre, and Katie—channel St. Barbara in surviving Fin, the family’s abusive patriarch. An immigrant coal miner, Fin battles the Frick Coke Company and strike-breakers from the Ku Klux Klan.
PB - High Hill Press
PP - [St. Charles, MO]
PY - 2013
RN - Marian Szczepanski was born in Greensburg, Westmoreland County and educated at the University of Notre Dame and Warren Wilson College. Her short fiction won the DeMaine Award for an Emerging Writer from <em>Clackamas Literary Review</em>.
EP - 400 p.
TI - Playing St. Barbara
ER -