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Professional liar
Miller Cane is making a killing traveling around the country running therapy
groups for survivors of mass shootings-and business is booming. But just as his
latest con is unfolding, he's interrupted by a call from Lizzie, the woman he loves.
It seems Lizzie's in jail for shooting and wounding Connor, an abusive former
lover-who wants custody of Lizzie's eight-year-old daughter, Carleen. Lizzie is
adamant: Miller must keep Carleen from Connor, taking her on the road with him
in his battered old motor home.
Meanwhile,
Miller's former life as a history teacher and scholar catches up with him when
his New York editor persuades him to contribute to a forthcoming history book.
Miller takes Carleen to historical sites in the American West-from the Whitman
Massacre site to the home of Laura Ingalls Wilder-and begins writing his
textbook entries. But dealing as he is with the stress of parenting Carleen
while evading Connor and other threats, Miller's textbook sidebars become more
and more . . . creative.
As the two drive
toward their inescapable destiny, Miller the liar struggles to say something
true that he can bequeath to this child he's grown to love.
Miller Cane: A
True & Exact History is set in our tumultuous present, swimming in
violence and fraud, but it's also about how we care for each other, even save
each other, with a narrative drive and sense of humor in the tradition of other
American road novels, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to The
Sisters Brothers. Painfully true and painfully funny, Miller
Cane will take its place alongside such classics as True
Grit and Paper Moon.
Miller Cane is making a killing traveling around the country running therapy
groups for survivors of mass shootings-and business is booming. But just as his
latest con is unfolding, he's interrupted by a call from Lizzie, the woman he loves.
It seems Lizzie's in jail for shooting and wounding Connor, an abusive former
lover-who wants custody of Lizzie's eight-year-old daughter, Carleen. Lizzie is
adamant: Miller must keep Carleen from Connor, taking her on the road with him
in his battered old motor home.
Meanwhile,
Miller's former life as a history teacher and scholar catches up with him when
his New York editor persuades him to contribute to a forthcoming history book.
Miller takes Carleen to historical sites in the American West-from the Whitman
Massacre site to the home of Laura Ingalls Wilder-and begins writing his
textbook entries. But dealing as he is with the stress of parenting Carleen
while evading Connor and other threats, Miller's textbook sidebars become more
and more . . . creative.
As the two drive
toward their inescapable destiny, Miller the liar struggles to say something
true that he can bequeath to this child he's grown to love.
Miller Cane: A
True & Exact History is set in our tumultuous present, swimming in
violence and fraud, but it's also about how we care for each other, even save
each other, with a narrative drive and sense of humor in the tradition of other
American road novels, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to The
Sisters Brothers. Painfully true and painfully funny, Miller
Cane will take its place alongside such classics as True
Grit and Paper Moon.