What a storyteller. Beautiful writing. Captivating characters. McBride is one of our modern literary geniuses, capable of lacing honest humour through a complex web of tense community politics in a delicate period of history. The plot weaves and dips across cultures over time and draws humanity together against common evil, while slipping in a poignant social commentary of America, relevant to the 30s, and still even now.

I ended this one with a smile sending the tears over bumps and wrinkles to run down the sides of my cheeks. The best moving and satisfying way to end a novel…