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Thomas Dixon’s TOMMY MACK: An Appalachian Childhood captures twenty-seven tumultuous – and center-warming – years of growing up poor within the Tazewell County coalfields of southwestern Virginia, where an alcoholic and abusive father too continuously appeared more like predator than supplier. At the same time as his father used to be in jail, young Tommy exalted within the times and wonders of nature, and the circle of relatives planted and tended the gardens, all-the-At the same time as dreading the day when his father would go back…