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A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher

Description: A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption.

“A deeply affecting account of the journey West … The writing is assured, and the novel succeeds in rendering not only the overwhelming landscape and the small, hard details of daily life, but monumental sorrow and the meanderings of love in its many channels."--New Yorker Magazine

"...the words and images swept me along. Not since Cormac McCarthy's 1992 modern-day Western, All the Pretty Horses , has a novel's opening been as mystifying and mesmerizing." --Bob Minzeheimer, USA TODAY

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BookPeople was Karen's favorite bookstore when she was writing early drafts of A Sudden Country!

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