The Green Age of Asher Witherow is the debut novel of M. Allen Cunningham, published in 2004. It is the story of Asher Witherow, a boy born in the coal mining town of Nortonville, California in 1863. The story is framed as a memoir, penned by the elderly Witherow in the spring of 1950, long after the book's events occurred, and many years after the community of Nortonville ceased to exist.
M. Allen Cunningham's first novel, "The Green Age of Asher Witherow," was published in 2004. It is a story about Asher Witherow, born in 1863 in the coal mining town of Nortonville, California. The narrative is presented as a memoir written by the elderly Witherow in spring 1950, long after the events and the community of Nortonville no longer existed.