cover image Stranger Kingdom

Stranger Kingdom

Howard Frank Mosher, Frank Mosh Howard, H Mosher. Laurel Press, $19 (432pp) ISBN 978-0-440-50337-8

Racist sentiments pk in a small Vermont town percolate when a black minister is accused of impregnating and killing a white teenage girl. The loose ends are pulled together a bit too neatly, PW found, but this is ``powerful, viscerally affecting and totally contemporary in its exposure of deep-seated prejudice and intolerance.'' (Nov.)