Melanie Rae Thon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-395-78589-8
How hard and how long will we persist in the often hopeless quest to save the ""starved nestlings"" among usDneglected children? In her latest novel, Thon poses this question via the story of two delinquent children on the lam. Just turned 16, Flint
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Melanie Rae Thon, Author Random House (NY) $18.95 (275p) ISBN 978-0-394-57664-0
Bullied wives, maimed men, haters of Indians, exhibitionists, petty preachers and rebel congregations are among the northern Montana townspeople who grope for individual deliverance in the background of this exceptionally promising debut novel....
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Melanie Rae Thon, Author Faber & Faber $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-571-12947-8
Although the young characters in these 11 coming-of-age tales represent diverse racial and regional backgrounds, their experiences, hopes and fears prove universal. (Apr.)
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Melanie Rae Thon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-78588-1
Thon (Iona Moon), who made the final cut of Granta's list of the Best Young American Novelists, peoples the seven incandescent stories in her new collection with characters who have nothing more to lose. They are numbly hanging on to life, absorbed...
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Melanie Rae Thon, Graywolf, $15 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-55597-585-2
In Thon's overcooked collection, readers are run through a gauntlet of human suffering spanning slavery, the Holocaust, suicide, Vietnam, and abandoned children, focusing on a cast of broken characters seeking wholeness and redemption. Whether...
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Melanie Rae Thon. Univ. of Alabama/Fiction Collective Two, $15.50 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-1-57366-162-1
Seventeen-year-old Kai Dionne and his dog, Talia, have fallen into a river near their home in rural Montana, through the surface ice into "an open mouth full of black water." This meditative novel unfolds over a single day while Kai and Talia remain
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