Award-winning author Kevin Powers' new novel is poignant and engaging

Novel of the Week

This is a strange, bleak poem of a novel, in which the voices of characters from different times and different levels are plaited together in a sort of threnody for the state of Virginia. It is also a story of epic scope, which stretches over a 120 years.

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