Bonnie Jo Campbell’s second novel (after Q Road) cribs from The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn and Winter’s Bone in its portrayal of a stubborn teenage girl traveling on the knife-edge of danger. With vengeance on her mind, rough-and-tumble Michigander Margo Crane cuts a wide swath through those who set out to help her, avenging the wrong done to her family on everyone who trusts her. After Margo’s uncle Cal sexually assaults her at a family gathering, she and her father Bernard are ostracized in their rural river community, forced to pick up odd jobs and hunt to ...
- 7/20/2011
- avclub.com
Nazis. Wonder drugs. Uzi-toting mothers. Here's what to pick up this season, from the current issue of Newsweek.
Nothing Dauntedby Dorothy Wickenden
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Century-old letters composed in the wilds of Colorado by two young schoolteachers provide the backbone of this stirring narrative by one of their granddaughters.
The Man in the Rockefeller Suitby Mark Seal
At 17, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter left Germany for the U.S., where he pursued a two-decade career as an impostor, most famously as Clark Rockefeller. This spectacular story is all in the entertaining details.
State of Wonderby Ann Patchett
A female research scientist from a Minneapolis drug company is sent to Brazil to find a doctor working on a wonder fertility drug. Think Heart of Darkness with women.
Carte Blancheby Jeffery Deaver
His creator may be long gone, but James Bond (with his gadgets, women, and...
Nothing Dauntedby Dorothy Wickenden
Related story on The Daily Beast: The 12 Best Books of Summer
Century-old letters composed in the wilds of Colorado by two young schoolteachers provide the backbone of this stirring narrative by one of their granddaughters.
The Man in the Rockefeller Suitby Mark Seal
At 17, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter left Germany for the U.S., where he pursued a two-decade career as an impostor, most famously as Clark Rockefeller. This spectacular story is all in the entertaining details.
State of Wonderby Ann Patchett
A female research scientist from a Minneapolis drug company is sent to Brazil to find a doctor working on a wonder fertility drug. Think Heart of Darkness with women.
Carte Blancheby Jeffery Deaver
His creator may be long gone, but James Bond (with his gadgets, women, and...
- 5/30/2011
- by Malcolm Jones & Lucas Wittmann
- The Daily Beast
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