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Reviewed on September 15, 2013 | Fiction
Categorizing her third novel (after Mackerel Sky and The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World) as "metahistoriographic fiction" and using touches of magical realism and dime novel sensationalism, Caple succeeds in spinning a wild and wooly tale of the American West in the late 1800s. Readers meet Calamity Jane's daughter, Miette, at her adoptive father's deathbed when he implores her ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
