Shoot the Horses First Angstman Leah
Shoot the Horses First Angstman Leah ***Winner of the Shorts Award for Americana Fiction***A debut collection of genre-bending short histories and novellas spanning 16th- through early…
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Shoot the Horses First Angstman Leah
***Winner of the Shorts Award for Americana Fiction***A debut collection of genre-bending short histories and novellas spanning 16th- through early 20th-century.Through a historian's lens and folkloric storytelling, the pieces in SHOOT THE HORSES FIRST revel in the nuances, brutality, mythology, and tiny victories of our historical past. A child on the Orphan Train has his teeth inspected like a horse. A launderer takes us inside the linens of the richest families in early Baltimore.
While one woman lands on an island of the Wampanoag tribe, a woman 200 years later finds Apache in a harsh frontier. Civil War soldiers experience PTSD. Children survive yellow fever, the desert heat, and mistaken identities; men survive severed fingers, untested medicines, and wives with obsessive compulsive disorders.
Frederick Douglass' grandson plays violin at the