Laird Hunt
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Pub. Date
2021.
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After losing both her parents and her aunt, Zorrie is cast into the perilous realities of rural Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, surviving on odd jobs, Zorrie finds a position at a radium processing plant. When Indiana calls Zorrie home, she finds the love and community that has always eluded her in and around the small town of Hillisburg, but discovers that her trials have only begun. -- adapted from jacket
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
"A sprightly menaced thing." —TIME OUT NEW YORK
"This is a novel about appearances, reality and shadow, identity and anonymity, words and their corresponding signifieds or the echoes of those signifieds. The Impossibly is like Beckett's Molloy, but faster paced, better to dance to. It is like Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy, but so much funnier." —PERCIVAL EVERETT, from the Introduction
When the anonymous
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Every road leads to the bedlam of Marvel, and on it lives will collide and be changed forever. Reminiscent of the works of Louise Erdrich, Edward P. Jones and Marilynn Robinson, THE EVENING ROAD is the story of two remarkable women on the move through an America riven by fear and hatred, and eager to flee the secrets they have left behind.
5) Neverhome
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"She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband and donned the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a traitor, a madwoman, and a legend. Laird Hunt's enthralling new novel throws a light on the adventurous women who chose...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to the Galaxy Swirl, but that's not where she's really headed on her new Schwinn five-speed. Float Up, Sing Down is the story of a single day. But in that day, how much teeming life! The residents of this rural town have their routines, their preferences, their joys, grudges, and regrets. Gossip is paramount. Lives are...
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