Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, nineteenth-century edge of the future. Fear, greed, and real estate turn the windmill into a hanging tree. Each train into this booming railroad town unloads a cargo of carpetbaggers, entrepreneurs, seekers, Civil War veterans, and strong, lonely women--like Eliza Pelham. Good mother, drunk and unfaithful wife, Eliza stands at this juncture of raw change and random justice, caught in a reality of callousness and redemption. As Eliza searches for her stolen children, she discovers three allies: an Irish saloon girl, an Apache man who reads Melville, and La Llorona, the weeping mother, fierce in a black dress, thousands of years old.
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"Small daily detials and larger ideas make this unconvential western a truly compelling blend of adventure, Southwestern mythology and reality." -- Publishers Weekly
Good mother, drunk, unfaithful wife, Eliza Pelham stands at a juncture of change caught between callousness and redemption. As Eliza searches for her stolen children, she meets three allies: an Irish saloon girl wracked by "the cough", an Apache man who reads Melville, and La Llorona, weeping mother, dressed in black -- and offering her own brand of wisdom. Set against the backdrop of the New Mexico Territory and the social conflicts between a railroad boomtown's "Old Town" and "New Town" divisions, A Killing In New Town showcases a remarkable writer with a gripping tale that won't let go of the reader from first page to last! -- Midwest Book Review
Good mother, drunk, unfaithful wife, Eliza Pelham stands at a juncture of change caught between callousness and redemption. As Eliza searches for her stolen children, she meets three allies: an Irish saloon girl wracked by "the cough", an Apache man who reads Melville, and La Llorona, weeping mother, dressed in black -- and offering her own brand of wisdom. Set against the backdrop of the New Mexico Territory and the social conflicts between a railroad boomtown's "Old Town" and "New Town" divisions, A Killing In New Town showcases a remarkable writer with a gripping tale that won't let go of the reader from first page to last! -- Midwest Book Review
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In this award-winning novel a nineteenth-century woman in the turbulent West searches for her stolen children but finds much more.
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Horsley's revisisionistic view of the period provides historical insight into a period of rampant exploitation. Beyond that it is one woman's story of redemption. The story centering around a woman searching for her children who have been taken on a "nature trip" in the mountains soon comes to realize that no matter how horrible the acts of man, if the powers that be support the actions the perpetrators either individually or collectively can get away with the most heinous of crimes.
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