I just read the chapter where "rebecca's" dad told her he had cancer. You really captured the moment and awfulness that comes with that diagnoses. You really understand the human element.
The story of Cassidy, cam girl in modern-day SoCal; Paloma, Fulbright scholar in newly Westernized Prague; Jane, farm girl working at the FBI in DC during WWII. Each leaves Appalachia to find a new life, only to be pulled back to the land they know.