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We all set our sights on the Great American Novel. . . . Thomas Maltmancomes impressively close to laying his hands on the grail.Madison SmarttBell The Boston GlobeMaltmans prose and pacing flow from an experthand. . . . His gaze is unflinching and balanced. . . . And while there is muchloss in the novel in the end there is salvation.Robin Vidimos DenverPostMaltmans writing is most lucid when he explores the German folkloreDakota mysticism and pioneer spirituality that shape his charactersunderstanding of their own harsh world.Entertainment WeeklyThomasMaltmans debut novel The Night Birds soars and sings like a featheredangel.Chicago SunTimesMaltman excels at giving even his mostharrowing scenes an understated realism and at painting characters who arerichly sometimes disturbingly human. The novel sustains its tension right tothe moment it ends.Publishers Weekly starredA flawless sense ofhistory marked by its most revealingand harrowingdetails.BooklistTheintertwining story of three generations of German immigrants to the Midwesttheir clashes with slaveholders the Dakota uprising and its aftermathis seenthrough the eyes of young Asa Senger named for an uncle killed by an Indianfriend. It is the unexpected appearance of Asas aunt Hazel institutionalizedsince shortly after the mass hangings of thirtyeight Dakota warriors inMankato in 1862 that reveals to him that the past is as close as his ownheartbeat.Thomas Maltman lives in Manitowoc Wisconsin. This is his firstnovel. «
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