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The Maid’s Version

September 6, 2013

Maid's Version

  Daniel Woodrell’s last novel, Winter's Bonewas a contemporary look at a teen’s desperate struggle to save what is left of her family when her drug dealing father skips out on bail. In his latest, The Maid's Version, he returns to the Ozarks but in 1929. He writes of Alma Dunahew, a woman whose mind is so filled with the injuries, insults, and injustices of the past that it ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical fiction, literary, Little Brown and Company

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