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From the author of the highly acclaimed The Account of Land and Sea comes a fascinating novel, set in the late 18th-century North american South, that uses a singular band of companions - an escaped slave, a white orphan, and a Creek Indian - who are being tracked down for murder. In 1788, three men converge in the southern woods of what is now Alabama. Cat, an emotionally scarred white man from South Carolina, is away from home after abandoning his home. Bob is a talkative dark-colored man fleeing slavery over a Pensacola sugars plantation. Istillicha, edged out of his Creek town's command, is destined by honor to seek retribution. Inside the couple of days they spend mutually, the makeshift trio commits a surprising murder that soon gets the forces of the law bearing down upon them. Sent to pick up their path, a probing French tracker called Le Clerc must determine that includes a greater lay claim: swift justice or his own attention about how exactly three such disparate, eager men could react in unison. Katy Simpson Smith skillfully brings into emphasis men whose lives are both catastrophic and filled with wish - and illuminates the lives of the women they left out. Far from being anomalies, Cat, Bob, and Istillicha will be the beating center of the new America that Le Clerc challenges to grasp. In these territories found between European, North american, and Native countries, a wilderness is present where four men grapple with the value of family, the stain of guilt, and the rivalling forces of power, love, race, and independence - questions that continue steadily to haunt us today.

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