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Title	:	After the Fog
Author	:	Kathleen Shoop
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 418 pages
Published	:	May 8th 2012 by Create Space
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

After the Fog Paperback | Pages: 418 pages

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The sins of the mother... In the steel mill town of Donora, Pennsylvania, site of the infamous 1948 "killing smog," headstrong nurse Rose Pavlesic tends to her family and neighbors. Controlling and demanding, she's created a life that reflects everything she missed growing up as an orphan. She's even managed to keep her painful secrets hidden from her loving husband, dutiful children, and large extended family.When a stagnant weather pattern traps poisonous mill gasses in the valley, neighbors grow sicker and Rose's nursing obligations thrust her into conflict she never could have fathomed. Consequences from her past collide with her present life, making her once clear decisions as gray as the suffocating smog. As pressure mounts, Rose finds she's not the only one harboring lies. When the deadly fog finally clears, the loss of trust and faith leaves the Pavlesic family-and the whole town-splintered and shocked. With her new perspective, can Rose finally forgive herself and let her family's healing begin?

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ISBN:	1469935708 (ISBN13: 9781469935706)
Edition Language:	English

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3.5 starsI was eager to read After the Fog after Kathleen Shoop's debut novel The Last Letter moved me to tears. Set in the steel and zinc mill town of Donora, Pennsylvania this fictional story is based on a real event, the "Donora Death Fog" of 1948. Where mill polution, greed, ignorance and nature combine with tragic consequences. Once again Kathleen Shoop provides gritty detail of harsh conditions and bitter realities, struggling families and realistically flawed characters. Rose Pavlesic is



An interesting story based on the Donora Smog event. A town nurse "Rose" is juggling working and having a family. She has worked her entire life to put her past behind her and for a better life for her children. She has kept many many secrets from them and pushed them extremely hard for what seems to be her own dreams and not their own. Not intentionally she just wants them get the heck out of Donora and have a wonderful life, but in this she has somehow forgotten how to listen to them. Her past

I enjoyed this book so much because I come from New Kensington, Pa. and I was familiar with the words gum bands and the word hunkey and Mercy Hospital in Pgh. I related to all of these places.Thank you so much for writing about it...especially at this time.

Kathleen Shoop really has a knack of transporting you back in time to Donora with sights, sounds and smells, I could vividly imagine life in this era perfectly whilst reading. Set in 1948 in the mill town of Donora this story is based around the time of the killing smog that engulfs the town and sees its residents fall fowl to the effects off the constant mill works.Secrets galore come out amidst the smog and life for Rose and her family is forever changed. This was a really long book longer

A novel filled with believable characters set in well-researched time and location, with such well-drawn historical insights it leaves the reader trembling for today, Kathleen Shoops After the Fog is hard to put down, fiercely absorbing, and furiously real.The conflict of jobs vs. environment, and financial vs. human concerns is vividly portrayed through the lives of a multi-generational family in Donora PA just after the Second World War. Unions have at least made living conditions less fatal

30 AUG 2015 - this about my home state, Pennsylvania. Although I am from the Southcentral part of PA (closer to Philadelphia than to Pittsburgh), it will be good to read about a real event, The Donora Smog event.