![]() And when Granny’s lingering cold turns out to be something much worse, Liberty wonders if somebody at the mine is hiding the truth about the water. Half the county is out of work, an awful lot of people in town seem to be sick, and the tap water is bright orange-the same water that officials claim is safe. There she can at least finish high school and put some distance between herself and her mother-or her former mother, as she calls her.īut Ebbottsville isn’t the same as Liberty remembers, and it’s not just because the top of Tanner’s Peak has been blown away to mine for coal. ![]() ![]() ![]() With her mother facing prison time for a violent political protest, seventeen-year-old Liberty Briscoe has no choice but to leave her Washington, DC, apartment and take a bus to Ebbottsville, Kentucky, to live with her granny. ![]()
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