Playing St. Barbara
| Title | Playing St. Barbara |
| Year of Publication | 2013 |
| Publication Type | Novel |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 400 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Szczepanski, Marian |
| Publisher | High Hill Press |
| City | [St. Charles, MO] |
| Keywords | alcoholism; baseball; child abuse; coal industry; coke industry; German Americans; Ku Klux Klan; labor strikes; Roman Catholics; saints |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Notes | East Allegheny is referred to as Deutschtown. |
| Author Biography | 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 Clackamas Literary Review. |
| Time | 1920s-40s |
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