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Blasts from the Past: River Thieves by Michael Crummey (2001)

13 January 2017 / 17 Comments

This is the latest in a series of occasional posts featuring books I read years ago about which I was wildly enthusiastic at the time, wanting to press a copy in as many hands as I could. I went through a phase of reading novels about Native Americans of which Michael Crummey’s debut was one […]

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