Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White is a Young Adult novel about a generational blood feud in a small West Virginian town, but it's also a love letter to the people who live in coal mining towns just like it.

High school student Miles Abernathy comes across evidence that a fatal car accident years ago was planned by a local powerful family, who has the town under their heel. Before Miles can share this evidence, he's beaten within an inch of his life. As he recovers and tries to plan his next move, an apparition of one of his coal-mining ancestors appears.

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