Muskeg

Description

In 1922, Hazel and Theda are young and in love, but that love is savagely interrupted by a police raid at a Savannah speakeasy. Pressured by Theda’s wealthy family, Hazel avoids prosecution by moving as far away from Theda as possible, eventually finding peace on a remote island on the Minnesota-Canadian border, where she is captivated by the wild shores of Lake of the Woods. In 1937, Hazel is running a fishing resort with Minnie, her new love, when Theda suddenly appears with her 12-year-old son. An angry husband and a posse of detectives are furiously tracking her, and Hazel must make a potentially dangerous and life-changing choice.

About the Author:

Carla Hagen’s debut novel, Hand Me Down My Walking Cane, won the 2012 Midwest Independent Publishers Awards for literary fiction and historical fiction. Muskeg is the second book in her Minnesota-Canadian border trilogy. Calumet Editions will reissue Hand Me Down My Walking Cane and will publish the third novel, Into the Storm, which links the 1930s borderlands with the Spanish Civil War. Hagen???s work has appeared in Voices for the Land and When Last on the Mountain, as well as in Talking Stick, Saint Paul Almanac, Border Senses and Sing, Heavenly Muse! The Minnesota-Canadian border, where she grew up, and Mexico, where she came of age, inform her work. She is a retired attorney who practiced law as a public defender, then as a prosecutor. When not writing, she co-hosts a weekly Latin music radio show, swims, bicycles, hikes, travels and studies languages She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her husband.

• Publisher :  Calumet Editions (July 26, 2022)
• Language :  English
• Paperback :  264 pages
• ISBN-10 :  1950743853
• ISBN-13 :  978-1950743858
• Item Weight : 15.5 ounces
• Dimensions :  6 x 0.66 x 9 inches