A Walking Fire

Valerie Miner

"I found this novel utterly engrossing. It is smoothly and powerfully written, politicially acute, and humanly relevant. The device of re-writing Shakespeare's King Lear from the point of view of Cordelia, moreover, gives the novel many levels of resonance and invites serious study. I have no doubt that this book will appeal not only to a general novel-reading audience, but also to students and critics of literature." -- Madelon Sprengnether, author, The Spectral Mother.

"Here's a good big story of Cora's journey home across a continent and twenty years. Valerie Miner's gift is to make us see again that the issues we too often think of as political are really deeply personal. A Walking Fire is a worthy pilgrimage and a welcome book." -- Ron Carlson, author, Plan B for the Middle Class.

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