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Chicago 1931. Asta Eicher, newly widowed mother of three, receives seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers who promises to cherish, protect, and ultimately marry her and care for her and her children. Weeks later, all four Eichers are found dead in West Virginia. Emily Thornhill, one of Chicago's few women journalists, goes to West Virginia to cover the murder trial and to investigate the tragedy herself.
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Set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, this is the story of two children--Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but filled with radiance--who grow up with their mother and aunt while their soldier-father fights for his life during the chaotic early months of the Korean War.
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Called “an enduring literary achievement . . . astonishing” by The New York Times, this highly acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch introduces the Hampsons, an ordinary, small-town American family profoundly affected by the extraordinary events of history—from the Depression to the Vietnam War.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American...
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"In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who...
