Blue Earth is a compelling novel of Minnesota, a land that guards its
secrets. Carver Heinz loses both farm and family in the farm crisis of
the 1980s. Displaced into urban Minneapolis, he becomes obsessed with
Angie, a beautiful child he rescues from a tornado in an encounter he
insists they keep silent. Her close friendship with a Dakota Indian boy
fuels Carver's rage and unleashes a series of events that reveal the
haunting power of each character's past and of their shared histories,
especially the 1862 Dakota Conflict and public hanging of 38 Dakota--the
largest mass execution in U.S. history.
"We... see our own lives reflected in Blue Earth 's dark mirror, even
as we learn a tragic history kept from us by those who would forever
erase our origins... This is a brilliant novel by one of our truly
intuitive and accomplished writers" --Margaret Randall, author of
Ruins
"Achtenberg's passionate, brilliantly crafted language, combined with
her profound ethical imagination, makes Blue Earth one of the most
important books to appear at this moment in our history." --Demetria
Martinez, author of Mother Tongue
"Achtenberg creates morally complex and culturally diverse characters
whose lives are affected by loss, poverty, disease, and war, but whose
ultimately redemptive encounters with one another take Blue Earth far
beyond its Midwestern setting." --Martha Collins, author of Blue Front
"In the great tradition of Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner, Anya
Achtenberg writes of the violence, past and present, that shapes the
people of the vast American Midwest. Deep and searing, Blue Earth is
perhaps one of the best novels of the past decade." --Kathleen Spivack,
author of With Robert Lowell and His Circle
Learn more at www.Anya-Achtenberg.com
****From the Reflections of History Series at Modern History Press
www.ModernHistoryPress.com
