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Bakerton, Pa. is a fictional coal mining town with company owned houses. We see neighborhood lines drawn by ethnicities but everyone still knows everyone else in town. We follow the story of one family, the Novaks, from the time of the father's death until the youngest child is grown. The five children all want to get out of Bakerton and try in various ways to accomplish that. They all leave at some point, but come back for different reasons, not because they want to. Except the youngest, who ad
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