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Homer Hickam gained the commitment of readers and the praise of critics together with his first two memoirs occur the hardscrabble mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. The Brand New York Times topped his first guide, the number 1 nationwide bestseller October Sky, “an elegant evocation, a completely enchanting memoir.” And People named The Coalwood Way, Hickam’s follow up to October Sky, “a heartwarmer, certainly stunning and haunting.” Today Homer Hickam remains his amazing tale with Sky of Stone, stunning us with delightful storytelling as he takes us back once again to that amazing small-town we first found know and love-in October Sky.In summer time of ‘61, Homer “Sonny” Hickam, annually of school behind him, was thinking of exotic beaches and bomb ships. But before Sonny might achieve the fixer -top summer time where his mom was spending, a mobile call sends him back once again to the area he thought he'd fled, the coal -mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, in a man’s death—and the townspeople come in turmoil within the future of the mother, Elsie Sonny’s father, the mine’s superintendent, has been accused of neglect, has instructed her boy to invest summer time in Coalwood to aid his father.