MARTHA CONWAY | Thieving Forest

Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 7:30pm
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In the midst of our many modern comforts, it’s sometimes difficult to remember that life, love, and liberty weren’t always taken for granted in pioneer America.

Full of brutal poetry and breathtaking panoramas, Martha Conway’s Thieving Forest brings to life a fascinating and little-known time in American history with a gripping tale of survival, sisterhood, betrayal and love.

Set in the harsh and unforgiving landscape of northern Ohio’s Great Black Swamp in 1806, Thieving Forest opens on seventeen-year-old Susanna Quiner, watching helplessly from behind a tree as a band of Potawatomi Indians kidnaps her four older sisters. With both of her parents dead from Swamp Fever and all of the other settlers away in their fields, she rashly decides to pursue them herself. What follows is a young woman’s quest to save what remains of her family and discover what she is truly made of – and the parallel stories of her sisters’ unanticipated new lives.

“Living in an urban area as I do, I had a great desire to transport myself into a rustic environment without being sentimental about it,” says Conway of Thieving Forest. “The wilderness I describe might kill you. But there are surprises, too, and not all of them are bad.”

 

 

Martha Conway’s first novel, 12 Bliss Street, was nominated for an Edgar Award, and her short fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, The Quarterly, Folio, Puerto del Sol, Carolina Quarterly, and other publications. She is the recipient of a California Arts Council fellowship in Creative Writing, and has reviewed fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Review of Books, and The Iowa Review. She has taught fiction at Stanford University’s Online Writer’s Studio and UC Berkeley Extension.

 

 

 

 

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Thieving Forest By Martha Conway Cover Image
$15.74
ISBN: 9780991618507
Availability: Out of Stock - Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Noontime Books - August 15th, 2014