Laird Hunt. (2014). Neverhome: A Novel. Unabridged Hachette Book Group.

Laird Hunt. 2014. Neverhome: A Novel. Hachette Book Group.

Laird Hunt, Neverhome: A Novel. Hachette Book Group, 2014.

Laird Hunt. Neverhome: A Novel. Unabridged Hachette Book Group, 2014.

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     Laird Hunt is the author of several novels. His novel Neverhome was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection, an IndieNext selection, winner of the Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine and The Bridge prize, and a finalist for the Prix Femina Etranger. He is on the faculty in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Denver.

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An extraordinary novel about a wife who disguises herself as a man and goes off to fight in the Civil War

She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman, and a traitor to the American cause.

Laird Hunt's dazzling new novel throws a light on the adventurous women who chose to fight instead of stay behind. It is also a mystery story: why did Ash leave and her husband stay? Why can she not return? What will she have to go through to make it back home?

In gorgeous prose, Hunt's rebellious young heroine fights her way through history, back home to her husband, and finally into our hearts.

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   • source: Paul Auster, author of Report from the Interior
   • content: "A spare, beautiful novel...Laird Hunt had me under his spell from the first word of Neverhome to the last. Magnificent."
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     July 28, 2014
     Following Kind One, Hunt returns to the 19th century to transform a footnote in history—the women who fought disguised as men in the Civil War—into a haunting meditation on the complexity of human character, the power of secrets, and the contradictions of the American experience. Saying that “he was made out of wool and I was made out of wire,” Constance Thompson leaves her husband Bartholomew to work their Indiana farm and enlists in the Union Army as Ash Thompson. Her strength, fortitude, and marksmanship serve her disguise well, and soldiering seems to offer some of the change she has craved. But the carnage inevitably takes its toll. Captured by bounty hunters, Constance must use both cunning and violence to escape. After an injury separates her from her unit, the nurse with whom she’s sheltered betrays her to the military authorities, and she is put in a madhouse. Though she finds her way back home, the war’s brutality has changed both her and the farm so much that familiar grounds offers no peace, only pain. Hunt’s characterization of Constance transcends simplistic distinctions between male and female, good and bad. The language of her narration is triumphant as well: sometimes blunt, sometimes visionary, and always fascinating.

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   • content: Laird Hunt's lyrical prose delivers the story of Constance "Ash" Thompson, a woman who takes her husband's place and fights in the Civil War. Narrator Mary Stuart Masterson offers a finely crafted portrait. She makes it clear that where Ash is intrepid, Bartholomew, her husband, is fearful. She makes it seem natural that Ash should go to war, leaving Bartholomew to tend the farm. Disguised as a man, Ash carries off the masquerade, enduring atrocities and horrors until she's betrayed. Masterson's performance grows even more intense when, because it is believed that no sane woman would cross-dress, Ash is institutionalized, humiliated, and tortured. Hunt's impeccable research provides insight into society's historically restrictive gender attitudes, and Masterson's performance keeps the energy high and the characters believable. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

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