A warm yarn from the frozen North and as authentic as all get-out.” -Kirkus Reviews on Song of the River Show book
Praise for the writing of Sue Harrison “Mythic storytelling.” -The Washington PostBook World on Mother Earth, Father Sky “Under Harrison’s hand, ancient Alaska comes beautifully alive.” -The Denver Post on Cry of the Wind “Harrison expertly frames dramatic events with depictions of prehistoric life in the Aleutian Islands.” -The New York Times Book Review on Mother Earth, Father Sky “Harrison once again displays her first-rate storytelling talents . . .
In this epic nineteenth-century tale of alienation and avarice, survival and sacrifice, China will travel from the backwoods of Missouri to the mansions of Manhattan, as she searches for a future where she is finally free to trust, to love, and to touch . . . As his interest in her deepens and China’s life is torn apart by her mother’s death and accusations of witchcraft, she will have to decide if her secret-and her heart-are finally safe in his hands. After the tumult of the Civil War, a new doctor arrives in town who is curious about the lovely young woman who can birth babies and banish hexes. In their small Ozark town, where superstition runs rampant, the only person who can be trusted with her secret is the Cherokee midwife and healer who makes China her apprentice. At just six years old, it becomes clear that China Creed’s birthright, passed down from her mother’s side of the family, is the power to grant wishes with only a touch. “Coote is a natural, wryly dissecting the workings of human desire.” -The New York Times Book ReviewĪ rare gift determines one woman’s destiny in the breathtaking debut of a new trilogy from the international-bestselling author of the Ivory Carver Trilogy. Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, Innocents permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power. She leaves the aunt and uncle who are her guardians and moves in with her teacher together, they quickly embark on a journey into their darkest desires. But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable? And if the victim is her thirty-four-year-old teacher, shouldn’t he have known better? When the nameless young narrator of Innocents decides to seduce her teacher, she immediately realizes that the power of her sexuality is greater than she ever imagined. We all know that manipulating someone naïve and vulnerable into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is wrong-even evil. Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents draws readers into the anatomy of an adolescent obsession.
enthralling and ultimately sobering” (Kirkus Reviews). Summary A young novelist “turns Nabokov on his head in this tale of an Aussie Lolita who sets her sights on a witless teacher . . .
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