"Their Wonted Fires" Author Michael Robert Drane, on the Sunbury Press Books Show

Podcast: BookSpeak Network · BookSpeak Network

Opublikowano: 2026-09-25

Michael Robert Drane takes the reader back to the Gilded Age in Western Pennsylvania with his novel Their Wonted Fires. An old saying has it that "Pittsburgh is Hell with the lid off." This story takes you beneath the age's lavish facade of those days, to struggling rural communities and steel towns, including Braddock, PA. The Moran family is the face of this tale, as they face the changes of a fast-moving, industrializing society, and they are forced to question whether they have the...