{"title":"Fiction - World Literature - American - 19th Century","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"secrets-in-the-woods-9781964700472","title":"Secrets in the Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn October 8, 1871, fire turned night into a living hell. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Chicago's blaze claimed the headlines, a fiercer and more devastating inferno swept across Wisconsin's Green Bay peninsula-obliterating farms, forests, and families in its path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, among immigrant settlers carving new lives from the wilderness, survival came down to split-second choices: to run, to hide, to fight the flames. 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Like the best novels of Nadine Gordimer, it makes us appreciate the dynamic between the personal and the political, the public and the private, and the costs and causes of radical belief.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e-- \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, \u003cem\u003eCloudsplitter\u003c\/em\u003e is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, \u003cem\u003eCloudsplitter\u003c\/em\u003e is dazzling in its re-creation of the political and social landscape of our history during the years before the Civil War, when slavery was tearing the country apart. 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