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Tawni O'Dell


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Tawni O'Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of Fragile Beasts, Sister Mine, Coal Run, and Back Roads, which was an Oprah's Book Club pick and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. Tawni's screen adaptation of Back Roads is currently in development to be made into a film with Adrian Lyne set to direct. Her work has been translated into 15 languages and been published in over 30 countries.

Tawni was born and raised in the coal-mining region of western Pennsylvania, the territory she writes about with such striking authenticity. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and spent many years living in the Chicago area before moving back to Pennsylvania where she now lives with her two children.
 

Genres: General Fiction
 
Novels
   Back Roads (2000)
   Coal Run (2004)
   Sister Mine (2007)
   Fragile Beasts (2010)
   One of Us (2014)
   Angels Burning (2016)
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Tawni O'Dell recommends
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The Wild Inside (2015)
(Glacier Mystery, book 1)
Christine Carbo
"The brutality and fragility of Glacier National Park's wilderness provides the perfect backdrop for this well-crafted, absorbing novel about the barbarities and kindnesses of the humans living on its edge. Christine Carbo is a writer to watch."
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Where All Light Tends to Go (2015)
David Joy
"Compelling and authentic . . . a harsh tale of young love's tender hopes set against the brutal realities of ruined Appalachia. Jacob McNeely's story is one worth reading."

Awards
Oprah's Book Club Best Book nominee (2000) : Back Roads


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