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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.
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Average rating: 3.77 · 37,759 ratings · 2,837 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Back Roads 3.75 avg rating — 26,996 ratings — published 1999 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragile Beasts 4.12 avg rating — 2,361 ratings — published 2010 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coal Run 3.77 avg rating — 2,211 ratings — published 2004 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angels Burning 3.92 avg rating — 2,038 ratings — published 2016 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sister Mine 3.65 avg rating — 1,988 ratings — published 2007 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One of Us 3.57 avg rating — 2,013 ratings — published 2014 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[FRAGILE BEASTS] BY O'Dell, Tawni (Author) Broadway Books (publisher) Paperback 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By Tawni O'Dell - Sister Mine: A Novel (Reprint) (2008-05-21) [Paperback] it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SISTER MINE FIRST PRINT EDITION 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.”
― Tawni O'Dell, Back Roads

tags: hard-times, hardship, self-hate, working-class

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“ A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.”
― Tawni O'Dell, Sister Mine

tags: simple-truth

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“I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.”
― Tawni O'Dell, Back Roads

tags: closure, endings

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Polls

August BoTM Nominations ~ 1st Poll ~ "Takes Place in Southern US or Appalachians"
Top 5 Books move onto final poll

Mother May I

by Joshilyn Jackson

11 votes, 35.5%

Say Goodbye for Now

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

5 votes, 16.1%

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

by Beth Macy

5 votes, 16.1%

Bull Mountain

by Brian Panowich

3 votes, 9.7%

If the Creek Don't Rise

by Leah Weiss

3 votes, 9.7%

One Foot in Eden

by Ron Rash

2 votes, 6.5%

A Parchment of Leaves

by Silas House

1 vote, 3.2%

Nathan Coulter

by Wendell Berry

1 vote, 3.2%

Back Roads

by Tawni O'Dell

0 votes, 0.0%

Jayber Crow

by Wendell Berry

0 votes, 0.0%

31 total votes

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Mar 07, 2011 12:46PM

Not to be redundant or anything (see Deb-oh's comment), but I love your books! Just "liked" your FB page and wrote a reader's fawning status update about your books :-)

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