A good time for cutting hay, too, which was where Pa and my brothers had gone at first light. It’s less an action-packed western, more the eerie twin of Little House: The short chapters are packed with dread and woe, but daily life goes on even while the corpses accumulate. She’s seven in 1880, when over half of the novel takes place, and she has no say in what happens as the domestic life of the family sours and shifts. While the Hatfield-McCoy Feud fits the bill, the real story sprawled in so many directions that Ann Rinaldi had to find some way of containing it – thus, we follow events from the limited perspective of Fanny McCoy. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that The Coffin Quilt is quite a dark book, even though Ann Rinaldi does her best to downplay the violence for her target audience of morbid young teens – a select readership of girls who like reading historical tragedies (like all those Dear America books about the Titanic and the Oregon trail). It’s the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys! Madness, cruelty, death and despair all told from the viewpoint of youngest McCoy daughter Fanny, as she spends her childhood bearing witness to the conflict and finally realises that the only way forward is to walk away.
Title: The Coffin Quilt: The Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoysįirst Sentence: Today they hanged Ellison Mounts.
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