TY - BOOK AU - Maynard,Lee ED - Project Muse. ED - Project Muse. TI - Crum: the novel SN - 9781935978596 AV - PS3563.A96384 C78 2012 U1 - 813/.54 22 PY - 2012/// CY - Morgantown, W.V. PB - Vandalia Press KW - Boys KW - Fiction KW - Crum (W. Va.) KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Introduction / Meredith Sue Willis -- Summer -- Autumn -- Winter -- Spring -- Summer ... again -- Looking for Benny N2 - In Crum, a gritty coal town on the West Virginia-Kentucky border, the boys fight, swear, chase and sometimes catch girls. The adults are cramped in and clueless, hemmed in by the mountains. The weight of wonder, dejection, and even possibility loom over this tiny, suffocating town. This story is the tale of Jesse Stone, who doesn't know where he's going, but knows he is leaving, and whose rebellion against the people and the place of his childhood allows him to reject the comfort and familiarity of his home in search of his place in a larger world UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781935978596/ ER -