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A funny, bittersweet, yet heartwarming novel about friendship, family, and finding love in the Facebook age—not to mention the perils, pitfalls, and dubious pleasures of life as a modern young single woman—from Erin Duffy, the author of the acclaimed Bond Girl Ever since she was a little...

"Superbly written, with that sensitivity to sunset and afterglow that has always been Miss Cather's." —The New York Times Willa Cather wrote Shadows on the Rock immediately after her historical masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop. Like its predecessor, this novel of seventeenth-century...

Eines Tages öffnet ein junger Mann namens Markus seinen frischgereinigten Kühlschrank. Ein schockierender Moment! Er sieht eine Frau in dem Kühlschrank sitzen. Linda, eine sehr schöne Frau, sie lächelt und schaut Markus an und stellt sich mit bescheidenen Worten vor. Markus lässt vor Schreck eine Sektflasche fallen, welche auf den Steinfliesen in tausend Stück zerbricht. Nun nehmen die Dinge ihren Lauf. Nichts wird mehr so sein, wie es früher war.

Bo Mason, his wife, and his two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running throughout the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest.