Song of the Silt Pond is a haunting Appalachian coming-of-age novel set in the shadowed hills of 1960s eastern Kentucky. Marthann Keel, a sharp and tender-hearted girl growing up in a crowded cottage house tucked deep in a coal town holler, begins to sense something unsettled beneath the surface of her world-something the grown folks seem to have little knowledge of.

As strange visions stir and long-quiet voices begin to echo from the edges of memory, Marthann finds herself drawn toward the silt pond at the end of the holler-a place soaked in superstition and silence. What begins as unease becomes a quiet search for truth, leading her deep into the forgotten past of her community and the story of those who once called those mountains home.

With sisterhood, family, and the hush of old hills winding through every page, Song of the Silt Pond is a story about what we inherit, bury, and what refuses to stay gone. Through it all, Marthann learns that some reckonings rise slow-but they rise just the same.