Shauna Seliy discusses & signs When We Get There May 17, 2007

Over the course of one winter in 1974, in the coal-mining town of Banning, Pennsylvania, the youngest member of a large and boisterous Eastern European family gives himself a tall order: to find his mother, who recently disappeared without explanation. Lucas, an only child whose father died several years earlier in a coal mine blast, lives with the legacy of loss. Despite his heavy inheritance, Lucas is still just a thirteen-year-old boy puzzling out the world around him.

A Pittsburgh native, Seliy’s work has appeared in the New Orleans Review, Meridian, and Other Voices. When We Get There is her first novel.

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