Sky of Stone A Memoir
Concluding his trilogy of memoirs begun in October Sky, the author returns to Coalwood, West Virginia, recalling the summer of 1961. With a year of college behind him, Homer Sonny Hickam returns home when his father, the superintendent of the coal mine, is accused of negligence in a man's death. Sonny takes his first real steps toward manhood by unraveling the story behind the man's death.