True Sisters
Library Journal Dallas, who did such a lovely job with last year's The Bride's House, offers a tale of historical fiction inspired by Brigham Young's efforts to recruit Mormon converts by giving them handcarts they were then to wheel across the desert to Salt Lake City. For one of the last groups of converts leaving […]
Prayers For Sale
Publishers Weekly: In her charming new novel, Dallas (The Persian Pickle Club; Tallgrass; etc.) offers up the unconventional friendship between Hennie Comfort, a natural storyteller entering the twilight of her life, and Nit Spindle, a na?ve young newlywed, forged in the isolated mining town of Middle Swan, Colo., in 1936. When the two meet, Hennie […]