The Coffin Quilt
3.7
Ann Rinaldi
Fanny McCoy has lived in fear and anger ever since that day in 1878 when a dispute with the Hatfields over the ownership of a few pigs set her family on a path of hatred and revenge. From that day forward, along the ragged ridges of the West Virginia-Kentucky line, the Hatfields and the McCoys have operated not withing the law but within mountain codes of their own making. In 1882, when Fanny's sister Roseanna runs off with young Johnse Hatfield, the hatred between the two clans explodes. As the killings, abductions, raids, and heartbreak escalate bitterly and senselessly, Fanny, the sole voice of reason, realizes that she is powerless to stop the fighting and must learn to rise above the petty natures of her family and neighbors to find her own way out of the hatred.
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"The Coffin Quilt was about the Hat-field and McCoy feud. The book talked about how the feud started. It was like another Romeo and Juliet story, but western type. Johnse Hatfield was Romeo and Roseanna McCoy was Juliet. It mostly talked about how Johnse got Roseanna pregnant and left her. Roseanna’s family was very mad at the Hatfield’s for their son doing that. Roseanna just made everything worse for her family. Roseanna betrayed her family in some parts of the book. They didn’t like each other. The book also talked about how most of the people died and how everyone was so depressed. My favorite part of the book was when Rosanna’s baby waited for Fanny to get home from school. The baby knew what time Fanny would come to Rosanna’s house everyday. I recommend this book to people who like romance, death, history, battle, and depressing stories. I didn’t like the book very well because people were dying and it’s very depressing. It was a dark and depressing book."
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