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Reviewed on May 1, 1996
In Straight's third novel set in fictional Rio Seco, California (following I Been to Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots, LJ 4/15/94, and Blacker Than a Thousand Nights, Hyperion, 1994), five generations of one family respond to several months of violence and unrelenting tension. In a disorienting, mesmerizing opening sequence, two white women are murdered on the hardscrabble but fertile property of Hosea Thompso...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
