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Little, Brown and Company
September 2013
On Sale: September 3, 2013
Featuring: Alma DeGeer Dunahew
176 pages
ISBN: 0316205850
EAN: 9780316205856
Kindle: B00BAXFAMY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction | Historical
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 of three young boys, works
as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West
Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929,
her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42
killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to
blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? The embittered local
gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of
the waltzing couples? Or could it have been a colossal accident? Alma thinks she knows the answer-and that its roots lie in a
dangerous love affair. Her dogged pursuit of justice makes
her an outcast and causes a long-standing rift with her own
son. By telling her story to her grandson, she finally gains
some solace-and peace for her sister. He is advised to "Tell
it. Go on and tell it"-tell the story of his family's
struggles, suspicions, secrets, and triumphs.
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