KATE'S RING

A steel town, a coal town, a place where the industrial plants darken the skies with black smoke. A town where it's not easy to raise a family, especially one that has more than its fair share of problems. But thirteen-year old Kate takes on this responsibility and tries to keep her embattled family going. And it's Katie, in the end, who thinks she can get her parents, her brothers and sisters through heartbreak and tragedy. Set in a hardscrabble East Coast coal and steel town in the 1920s, Donna Grassby paints a vivid portrait of industrial life that leans as much on hope as it does on family.