Dark Side of the Loon

By Sheyna Galyan (editor), Christina Glendenning (editor), Timya Owen (editor)

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''Minnesota nice'' casts a long shadow. Dark emotions and even darker thoughts seep from these murky depths, harvested by writers whose stories take us down in flames, up in smoke, and leave us helplessly entranced by the haunting call of the loon.

Foreword by Ellen Hart, award-winning author of the…

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1 author picked Dark Side of the Loon as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

These stories are tied to some of Minnesota’s most famous events, back to 1830, and tell stories of fur trappers, pioneers, train robbers, and gangsters. Minnesota is the setting of my upcoming novel. I read novels and stories like this help fix the setting into my mind as I wrote.  

From Linda's list on historical fiction anthologies.

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