Ondro Prach, the 13-year-old sole survivor of a mine collapse in Pennsylvania’s Blue Mountain hills, mulls his life’s many imprisonments – guilt, fear, regret – in the decades since the 1929 disaster. Written in a flowing oral style in which “every clause is a thought and every comma is a breath,” Andrew Krivak’s novel is an extraordinary work of rescue, witnessing, and redemption. – Erin Douglass