Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() While Bleeding Kansas's grand themes of American political history, global religious discord and the folly of the Iraq war dominate Paretsky's conversation when we talk in London, VI is never too far from her thoughts. Having coexisted for decades in an uneasy truce, their peace is destroyed by a number of startling events: the arrival from New York of a lesbian Wiccan called Gina Haring the death of the Grelliers' son, Chip, in Iraq the gradual disintegration of his anti-war mother and the Schapens' red heifer who may just be able to speak the sacred name of Hashem in Hebrew. A stand-alone novel set in contemporary Middle America, it is the intricate story of two feuding families: the liberal Grelliers and the Schapens, fundamentalist Christians. ![]() Having left Warshawski bloody but unbowed at the end of 2006's Fire Sale, Paretsky has taken a break from the crime fiction series that made her name to write Bleeding Kansas. It feels slightly strange to meet author Sara Paretsky and not be there to discuss VI Warshawski, the hard-boiled, quick-witted private investigator who has just celebrated her 25th anniversary fighting crime (her debut, Indemnity Only, was published in 1982). NOTE! Consider delaying until first div on page If (slot) slot.addService(googletag.pubads()) ![]() ![]() (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m) She's not in Kansas anymore - The Jerusalem Post ![]()
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