Sky of Stone

Now we are being treated to SKY OF STONE, which takes us with Homer "Sonny" Hickam back to Coalwood, West Virginia in the summer after his freshman year at college. Homer's taciturn father is at a crossroads in his life. His wife has left him and is living in Myrtle Beach. Sonny, looking forward to a summer of basking in the sun, meeting girls and helping his mother fix up the beach house, is packed and ready to go when he is called to the dormitory phone.
His hopes for a languid summer are shattered. Knowing that there is no arguing with Elsie Hickam, Sonny reluctantly returns to the depressed mining town to a father more remote and uncommunicative than ever.