ABOUT SOOT

In Soot, the fictional life of Bridie O’Doyle, a poor Irish girl in an 1800s coal mine patch town, wraps around the real-life violent death of Franklin Gowen, a 19th century kingpin of railroads and coal mines.

Gowen’s cruelty erodes Bridie’s goodness and propels her beyond the brink of hatred for the man at the heart of all her misfortune. "The mine steals everything I love. It’s taking me too, piece by piece." At age 23, maddened by the deaths of her husband and children, Bridie comes face to face with Gowen, a gun, and a possible resolution to the never-solved mystery of his demise.