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Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries.…

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1 author picked When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I loved the strange world of horse-diving, in which the young woman Two Feathers dives into water while on her horse as part of the attractions of a zoo. There is also a mystery involved here, and it dates back farther than anyone suspects. There is magic in this tale, which adds to the intrigue.

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