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About the Author

The Well and the Mine is Gin Phillips' first novel.

Praise for The Well and the Mine…

"A quietly bold debut, full of heart."
--O, The Oprah Magazine

"When you close the book, you'll miss these characters. But The Well and the Mine doesn't just give you characters who'll stay with you--it gives you a whole world."
--Fannie Flagg, author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café and Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man

"Gin Phillips has a remarkable ear for dialogue and a tenderhearted eye for detail; you can hear the pecans and hickory nuts falling from the trees and feel the stillness of a hot summer night. A whisper runs through the novel--the ghosts of places and people and luscious peach pies."
-- Los Angeles Times

"A tight-knit miner's family struggles against poverty and racism in Phillips's evocative first novel, set in Depression-era Alabama. Throughout, she moves skillfully between the points of view...Phillips fully enters the lives of her honorable characters and brings them vibrantly to the page."
--Publishers Weekly