HNR Issue 19 (February 2002)
Daughter of the Fifth Moon
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When a neighboring tribe attacks her peaceful village, Nyna is set adrift in a canoe. Three days later, she comes ashore in a ...Read Review
The Devil’s Apprentice
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Elizabethan London’s cruel winter finds the acting troupe Westfield’s Men looking for work, so an invitation to perform at Sir Michael ...Read Review
An Uncommon Enemy
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In November 1868, General Custer penned a letter to his wife in which he mentioned the arrival of a white woman, presumably an Indian ...Read Review
The Cock’s Spur
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The Cock’s Spur is the third novel in Charles F. Price’s trilogy about life in North Carolina in the late nineteenth ...Read Review
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
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The novel’s setting is an isolated reservation in North Dakota. It is 1996, and the old priest, Father Damien Modeste, is writing his ...Read Review
Incubus: l, Fast Friends
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Most novels taking place in the Elysian days of the late 1960s — sex, drugs and rock & roll — seem to center around San ...Read Review
John Henry Days
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July 12, 1996–J. Sutter, New York native and junketeer journalist, is en route to Talcott, West Virginia to cover the launch of a new ...Read Review
A President in the Family
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The president is Thomas Jefferson, the family the Woodsons, putative descendants of Thomas Woodson, debatably one of Jefferson’s children by his slave ...Read Review
Achilles
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Achilles, son of the goddess Thetis and King Peleus, and one of the greatest of all the Greek heroes of the Trojan War, ...Read Review
The God Who Begat a Jackal
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From the author of the acclaimed memoir of Ethiopia, Notes from the Hyena’s Belly, comes a haunting first novel steeped in African ...Read Review
