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Charged by lyrical prose and vivid evocations of a more-than-human world, Meteors in August proves itself a magnificent debut, a tale of despair and salvation in all their many forms Lizzie Macon is seven when her father drives a Native American named Red Elk out of their valley and comes home with blood on his clothes. The following year, her older sister, Nina, cuts her head from every family photograph and runs away with Red Elk's son and their unborn child. Nina's actions have consequences no one could have predicted: jittery reverberations of violence throughout the isolated northern Montana mill town of Willis. Sparks of racial prejudice and fundamentalist fever flare until one scorching August when three cataclysmic events change the town-and Lizzie's family-forever.
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"Every now and then a writer debuts fully equipped, writing as if he or she had been writing forever. Although this is a first novel, there is nothing here to suggest promise: Ms. Thon's Meteors in August arrives fully realized-yes, like a meteor. She is poised, aggressively insightful, and in complete command of her people, with a style full of unexpected and brilliant moves. . . . In the wake of
Daniel Halpern
"Thon's steely-eyed, sharp-shooting prose brings both urgency and spontaneity to her characters and their conflicts. . . . Thon is clearly a writer to watch."
Publishers Weekly
"The evocation of a small town is superb. . . . Her treatment of difficult themes, religious extremism, racism and even rape, demonstrates her technical ability as well as her sensitivity. . . . Hugely satisfying."
Publishers Weekly