The Maid's Version

by Daniel Woodrell

Book Overview

The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone (2006) tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations.

Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316205850
• ISBN13: 9780316205856
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"