Red Grass River\"A superb and engrossing novel Blake [is] one of the best and most original writers in America today.\" Milwaukee Journal Sentinel James Carlos Blake is a masterful chronicler of the restless, outcast, the lawless, and the lonelyheart. With Red Grass River, he has written a powerful and rousing historical saga of family loyalties, blood feuds, and betrayed friendships; of bank robberies and bootlegging; and of a passionate love as wild at heart as

The Art of the Memoir: Discover the craft of narrative nonfiction in an introduction by Annie Dillard that explores what makes a personal story true and unforgettable

After her mother’s betrayal

You will be the end

“From family secrets to heartbreaking lost love

Spring possesses a remarkable combination of clarity

a brilliantly inventive Hamlet retelling that becomes an epic tale of devotion

not necessarily in that order

she takes her two children to Silver Springs to seek refuge between the walls of a farmhouse her late father had planned to renovate

and the failed attempt to unite China’s nationalists and communists

Their waking relationship is far from the perfect romance she imagined

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her own life is at stake