The Eulogist From the author of The Water Dancers and Good Family an exquisitely crafted novel set in Ohio in the decades leading to the Civil War that illuminates the immigrant experience the injustice of sla
From the author of The Water Dancers and Good Family, an exquisitely crafted novel, set in Ohio in the decades leading to the Civil War, that illuminates the immigrant experience, the injustice of slavery, and the debts human beings owe to one another, witnessed through the endeavors of one Irish American family.Cheated out of their family estate in Northern Ireland after From the author of The Water Dancers and Good Family, an exquisitely crafted novel, set in Ohio in the decades leading to the Civil War, that illuminates the immigrant experience, the injustice of slavery, and the debts human beings owe to one another, witnessed through the endeavors of one Irish American family.Cheated out of their family estate in Northern Ireland after the Napoleonic Wars, the Givens family arrives in America in 1819 But in coming to this new land, they have lost nearly everything Making their way west they settle in Cincinnati, a burgeoning town on the banks of the mighty Ohio River whose rise, like the Givenses own, will be fashioned by the colliding forces of Jacksonian populism, religious evangelism, industrial capitalism, and the struggle for emancipation.After losing their mother in childbirth and their father to a riverboat headed for New Orleans, James, Olivia, and Erasmus Givens must fend for themselves Ambitious James eventually marries into a prosperous family, builds a successful business, and rises in Cincinnati society Taken by the spirit and wanderlust, Erasmus becomes an itinerant preacher, finding passion and heartbreak as he seeks God Independent minded Olivia, seemingly destined for spinsterhood, enters into a surprising partnership and marriage with Silas Orpheus, a local doctor who spurns social s.When her husband suddenly dies from an infection, Olivia travels
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Terry Gamble
The author of three critically acclaimed books, THE WATER DANCERS, GOOD FAMILY, and THE EULOGIST William Morrow, to be released January, 2019 , Terry Gamble lives in Northern California with her husband, balancing her life between being a productive member of the community and hiding out in a shed in the woods, trying to write.