Description
On New Year’s Day, 1929, thirteen-year-old Ondro Prach steps into Pennsylvania coal country as a mule boy, proud to shoulder a role that keeps the mines moving—even as he carries the knowledge that the earth can swallow men whole. When a sudden collapse traps the miners he’s come to know, Ondro survives with a memory that hardens into addiction, imprisonment, and the slow unraveling of the life he might have had. Years later, as the families of the lost return seeking answers, he must confront the darkness he escaped and find the courage to speak for those who cannot. With Andrew Krivak’s lyrical, incantatory prose, this elegiac novel explores grief, guilt, endurance, and the fragile work of living after catastrophe—turning a single day’s terror into a meditation on what it means to tell the truth from the black.
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Published Jan 1, 2026
ISBN: 9781954276468
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First Published
2026
Language
eng
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Content and trigger warnings for Mule Boy by Andrew Krivak.