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The awardwinning author of the river wife returns with a multigenerational family saga set in the unforgiving nebraska sand hills in the years following the massacre at wounded kneean ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land. When etta walks into your life, you wont be able to put the book down, so prop up the pillows and get ready to ride the night throughbecause youre going to. From acclaimed novelist jonis agee, the river wife is a sweeping, panoramic story that ranges from the new madrid earthquake of 1811 through the civil war to the bootlegging days of the 1930s. Jonis agee vividly portrays a lineage of love and heartbreak, passion and deceit, as each river wife comes to discover that blind devotion cannot keep the truth at bay, nor the past from haunting the present. Pdf the river wife by jonis agee download pdfepub ebook.
Gwins gift shines in the complexity of her characters and their fraught relationships with each other, their capacity for courage and hope, coupled with their passion for justice. The dark river navy general library program downloadable. Creative writing month 2016 department of english nebraska. For each of them its an uncertain life, buffeted by lawlessness on the river, the civil war and then prohibition. The bones of paradise by jonis agee book club discussion. Bennett, a white rancher, and star, a young native american woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on j. The bones of paradise takes place 10 years after the massacre at wounded knee.
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The past continually haunts the present in jonis agee s historical novel the river wife, the story of four generations of women whose lives are intertwined with charismatic, largerthanlife jacques ducharme. The river wife richly evokes the nineteenthcentury south at a time when lives changed with the turn of a card or the flash of a knife. Read pdf the river wife by jonis agee online, read in mobile or kindle. The bones of paradise is set in late 19thcentury nebraska in the aftermath of the wounded knee massacre, where some 200 lakota men, women and children were shot and killed by u. Jonis agee didnt intend for her 10th book, the river wife, to become her first historical novel. From acclaimed novelist jonis agee, whom the new york times. A gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the american landscape. A modernday bride finds a series of notebooks in the family home and reads the story of annie lark, a young girl who became trapped by a felled beam during a a. Read online the bones of paradise by jonis agee book in.
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Brown as keynote speaker, the river city mixed chorus, and pianist vince learned. Promise in the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of tupelo, mississippi, at the height of the great depression, two women worlds apartone black, one white. A gifted writer, agee returns here to historical fiction, the genre that served her so well in her awardwinning the river wife. Agee certainly sets the stage for a slowtoboil mystery. A kaleidoscopic portrait of misfits, schemers, chancers, and dreamers, jonis agee s bold novel is a panorama of america at the dawn of a new century. Strange angels delivers an enthralling family saga set in missouris boot heel, a place so remote. Author interview jonis agee, author of the river wife bookpage. Jonis agee has 17 books on goodreads with 9548 ratings. Books by jonis agee author of the river wife goodreads. The girl from ballymor by kathleen mcgurl books on.