Bleeding Kansas (Paperback)

Sara Paretsky, best known for her V.I. Warshawski crime novels, takes a dark literary turn in BLEEDING KANSAS, the story of two modern-day Kansas farm families whose history traces back to the bloody battles between pro-slavery advocates and abolitionists in the 1850s. With the arrival of a pagan lesbian to the community, the appearance of a miraculous talking calf, and the death of a local son in the Iraq War, generation-old conflicts concerning religion and morality arise, old secrets come to light, and the rural region threatens to explode with violence anew. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.