Book description
Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive). And every hired gun in Kansas is out to collect the bounty on her head, including bona fide witch hunter Old Tom and his mysterious, mute ward, Rabbit.
On the road to Burden County, they're joined by two vagabond cowboys with…
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1 author picked Red Rabbit as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book’s description sounds like the setup of a joke: two cowboys, a widow, a witch hunter, an outlaw, a ghost, and a very peculiar child travel the 19th-century American frontier seeking to find and destroy an infamous witch. What results is no punchline but an exciting and often amusing mixture of the supernatural, historical fiction, thriller, and magical realism.
The short chapters, brisk prose, and unsettling twists kept me turning the pages. I appreciated the fundamental decency and loyalty of the simply drawn characters and rooted for them all to make it through their journey unscathed, even as that…
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