Hard Red Spring
by:
Kelly Kerney (author)
An ambitious and unforgettable epic novel that spans a hundred years of Guatemala’s tumultuous history as experienced by four American women who are linked by the mysterious disappearance of a little girl In 1902, a young girl watches her family’s life destroyed by corrupt officials and...
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An ambitious and unforgettable epic novel that spans a hundred years of Guatemala’s tumultuous history as experienced by four American women who are linked by the mysterious disappearance of a little girl In 1902, a young girl watches her family’s life destroyed by corrupt officials and inscrutable natives. In 1954, the wife of the American ambassador becomes trapped in t
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780525429012 (0525429018)
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Hard Red Spring by Kelly Kerney is a century long history of Guatemala told through eyes of four expatriates in four different time periods. The book turns factual history into an emotional, memorable fictional story. The connections between the people follow through all four sections, keeping the s...
Hard Red Spring, by Kelley Kerney, provides even more proof that fiction is better than textbooks for putting oneself into the shoes of people who lived in other places, at other times. So much information is conveyed in this book that I feel like I’ve had a college course on Guatemala’s history, bu...