The Quickening

By Michelle Hoover,

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A July 2010 Indie Next Pick

Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she works and the animalsā€¦

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1 author picked The Quickening as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This exquisitely written, dark saga of family intrigue is worth reading over and over, and I do.

The protagonistā€™s devotion to family and the land that feed her, both physically and emotionally, is rich and consuming.

Events are seen from her point of view and her antagonistā€™s, giving opposing slants that generate an exquisite tension throughout the book.

This story was instrumental in my education as a writer, as was the author, both showing the use of deep interiority in every character, and a setting that made me live within the story.

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