The Deer in the Mirror

By Cary C. Holladay

With a song-like voice and deep knowledge of the history and folklore of her native Virginia, Cary Holladay creates dazzling stories of hardship and ecstasy. A young widow romances a German immigrant while weighing a proposal from the colonial governor. Convicted of murdering her master, an enslaved woman is burned at the stake. A breakneck stagecoach ride gives a bricklayer's apprentice the power to save or destroy his fellow passengers. An aging bachelor despairs of his marriage to a Confederate orphan. A beautiful adventuress joins the 1898 Alaska Gold Rush, charms a violent gangster, and figures out the secret of his fabulous wealth.

This seventh book from an award-winning author spans 300 years in the Old Dominion. Holladay's people fight the wars, battle the floods, and wrest a living from a wilderness where "Time is God's, not ours"--so says a reformed prostitute whose obsessive love for an amnesiac Yankee soldier defines her life. With a sensuous, lyrical style, Holladay holds a distinctive place in contemporary fiction.

All of these stories have appeared in major literary journals and anthologies, including Tin House and New Stories from the South: The Year's Best.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814251862
• ISBN13: 9780814251867
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"