In 1929, an explosion in a Missouri dance hall killed forty-two people. Who was to blame? Mobsters from St Louis? Embittered gypsies? The preacher who cursed th

The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations. Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother

Original publication and copyright date: 2009.

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Fourteen years ago, five women college students were seduced and cruelly humiliated by a group of fraternity brothers. Now someone is taking revenge by brutally