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Miller Cane: A True & Exact History
Professional liar Miller Cane is making a killing traveling around the country running therapy groups for survivors...
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Professional liar Miller Cane is making a killing traveling around the country running therapy groups for survivors of mass shootings-and business is booming. But just as his latest con is unfolding, he's interrupted by a call from Lizzie, the woman he loves. It seems Lizzie's in jail for shooting and wounding Connor, an abusive former lover-who wants custody of Lizzie's eight-year-old daughter, Carleen. Lizzie is adamant: Miller must keep Carleen from Connor, taking her on the road with him in his battered old motor home.
Meanwhile, Miller's former life as a history teacher and scholar catches up with him when his New York editor persuades him to contribute to a forthcoming history book. Miller takes Carleen to historical sites in the American West-from the Whitman Massacre site to the home of Laura Ingalls Wilder-and begins writing his textbook entries. But dealing as he is with the stress of parenting Carleen while evading Connor and other threats, Miller's textbook sidebars become more and more . . . creative.
As the two drive toward their inescapable destiny, Miller the liar struggles to say something true that he can bequeath to this child he's grown to love.
Miller Cane: A True & Exact History is set in our tumultuous present, swimming in violence and fraud, but it's also about how we care for each other, even save each other, with a narrative drive and sense of humor in the tradition of other American road novels, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to The Sisters Brothers. Painfully true and painfully funny, Miller Cane will take its place alongside such classics as True Grit and Paper Moon.
Author: Samuel Ligon
Publisher: Slant Books
Published: 09/15/2026
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9781639822355
About the Author
Ligon, Samuel: - Samuel Ligon is the author of four previous books of fiction, including Wonderland and Safe in Heaven Dead, and was co-editor, with Kate Lebo, of Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter & Booze. An earlier version of Miller Cane was serialized for a year in Spokane's weekly newspaper, The Inlander, as well as on Spokane Public Radio. Ligon teaches at Eastern Washington University in Spokane.
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