The High Divide

Lin Enger sends The High Divide characters into a sequence of improbable, nearly impossible situations. The novel takes place in 1886, when the West was still largely unsettled and when a man might make something of himself, somehow, somewhere. On the first page of The High Divide, Ulysses Pope, married for seventeen years, father of […]

American Gospel

American Gospel

American Gospel – Lin Enger’s immensely engaging novel of a messianic Minnesota preacher you will find it hard to turn away from. As I have noted before, one of the best things about my “Bookin’ with Sunny” connection is when Sunny hands me a book that I otherwise would never pick up, when I read […]