Endorsements

Endorsements for Dorie LaValle:

"In luminous prose and with a powerful sense of drama, Mary DesJarlais brings us a new kind of hero in the person of Dorie LaValle who has the grit and brains to survive both the challenges of Prohibition as a moonshiner and the impossible odds of finding her way through the backroads of the human heart. DesJarlais is a gifted storyteller, one who makes you lose yourself in a tale so fascinating you stay up all night reading and call in sick the next day, unable to forget the wonderful, heady mixture of beauty, humor, and brutal reality that saturate these pages. This novel announces Mary DesJarlais as a bright star rising on the literary landscape. It will move, disturb, and haunt you in the best way with its poetic intensity, its originality, and its tough, no holds barred characters." —Jonis Agee, Author of The River Wife.

"Dorie LaValle is the story of three remarkable women who make moonshine, deliever babies, and dispatch bad guys in the dead of the wintry north. This is compulsively readable historical fiction with equal parts dark mystery and brazen romance weaved in." —Ann Bauer, Author of The Wild Ride Up the Cupboard.

Endorsements for The Cutter's Widow:

"Even as it paints a vivid picture of life in Saint Paul, Minnesota, at the dawn of World War One, The Cutter's Widow tells a timeless story about what it is to be a woman in America. Among the streetcars, piecework factories and milliner shops, spirited female characters grapple with career, marriage, sexuality and reproductive freedom. In an era when a woman could be reported for smoking in public, the ladies of this novel band together, protecting one another and easing the way for children and men. The Cutter's Widow is entertaining and suspenseful, but it's also important. It reminds us that the issues women face today are not new, and the quiet strength of many is what carries us all." —Ann Bauer, Author of The Forever Marriage