The Deliverance of Barker McRae
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Advance praise for The Deliverance of Barker McRae:
Inspired by real historical figures, this sweeping, masterfully crafted saga unveils the Cherokee Land Lottery, one of the most unsettling and overlooked chapters in American history. With incredible detail and unflinching honesty, this novel exemplifies the very best of historical fiction, illuminating the past with heart, depth, and undeniable power. I’m in awe.
–Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MOY
A wild and riveting ride through the underside of Georgia’s nineteenth century Gold Rush and land lotteries. Pelletier has meticulously researched a lawless and violent corner of our state’s past and brought it to intense life. I felt smarter after reading it. One of the most entertaining and edifying novels on Georgia’s history I’ve read in years.
–Julia Franks, author of award-winning novels THE SAY SO and OVER THE PLAIN HOUSES
Few books startle you on almost every page—the elegance of the prose, the deep and human insights—and Stacia Pelletier’s beautiful THE DELIVERANCE OF BARKER MCRAE is one such book. Not surprisingly, I was put in mind of NEWS OF THE WORLD. Pelletier now joins Paulette Jiles as one of the finest and most distinct voices of America’s troubled past.
–Jonathan Rabb, author of six novels, including the Berlin Trilogy and AMONG THE LIVING
The ghosts of Cormac McCarthy’s Judge, Charles Frazier’s Inman, and Flannery O’Connor’s Hazel Motes all haunt the nineteenth-century Georgia wilds of this devastating novel. But even as the title echoes that landmark by James Dickey, THE DELIVERANCE OF BARKER MCRAE stands on its own as a beautiful and singular accomplishment. Read it and weep.
–Daren Wang, author of THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF NORTHERN FIRES
The Half Wives
The developing San Francisco of the 1890s becomes a rich background for these three as they play out their messy, somber, intertwined fates.
New York Times Book Review
Gorgeous details – Rivets the reader’s attention to the last humbling page.
Historical Novel Society
Moving and enthralling…Keeps readers hooked right up to the book’s satisfying conclusion.
Publishers Weekly
Accidents of Providence
Dangerous Liaisons: A 17th century heroine for our times…[A] delightfully seditious heroine…For all its period detail, this debut seems remarkably modern in its depiction of love and politics—proof that a historical novel can be educational and entertaining, and nothing like homework.
O, The Oprah Magazine
A heart-poundingly vivid, intellectually provocative account. . . A romping good read that is character-driven yet intellectually provocative on issues of law, religion and morality—historical fiction at its best.
Kirkus, STARRED Review
An absorbing tale…the best kind of historical fiction—a combination of love story and murder mystery, with a sprinkling of intriguing historical snippets and wonderful writing.
Library Journal, STARRED Review