Clay's Quilt - A Novel

Ballantine Books, The Random House Publishing Group, New York, 2002. Good secondhand copy.

After his mother is killed, four-year-old Clay Sizemore finds himself alone in a small Appalachian mining town. At first, unsure of Free Creek, he slowly learns to lean on its residents as family. There?s Aunt Easter, who is always filled with a sense of foreboding, bound to her faith above all; quiltmaking Uncle Paul; untamable Evangeline; and Alma, the fiddler whose song wends it way into Clay?s heart. Together, they help Clay fashion a quilt of a life from what treasured pieces surround him. . . .