Pamelia Barratt

Blood: the Color of Cranberries (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In her debut novel, Ms. Barratt uses her family's cranberry-growing heritage to create an early 20th century murder mystery that takes place in northern Wisconsin. The leading personalities in Blood: the Color of Cranberries are from Chicago, a Wisconsin farming community and an Ojibwe reservation. It took forty years for these diverse characters to understand that a murder or "mysterious accident" had taken place in 1919. Each had their reasons to delay its discovery. She conveys the hardships of early cranberry cultivation, before the use of chemical herbicides, when harvesting was a community activity, prior to sprinkler systems, which are used today to protect against frost. She recounts how logging the pinery affected the Ojibwe people and changed the terrain of the upper Midwest, while expressing the serenity and wildness of the North Woods of Wisconsin, where neighbors are few and mosquitoes are many; where loons provide your morning wake-up call and whip-poor-wills won't let you sleep at night.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: plowshare
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780982114513
• Artikelnr.: 47396427

Autorenporträt

Pamelia Barratt has lived on both the east and west coasts of the United States. She grew up in Chicago, summered in Wisconsin, lived for extended periods of time in Switzerland and Britain, and volunteered for ten years with a development nonprofit that works in the high Andes of Bolivia. After a career as a high school chemistry teacher, she became a journalist in San Diego, and then discovered the thrill of writing fiction. Her first novel, "Blood: the Color of Cranberries", was published in 2009. It was followed by "An Ostentation" two years later. "Gray Dominion" is her third mystery.

"My hodgepodge background has offered a great source of characters and situations to draw on for storytelling. Birds and nature continually renew my spirits," Pamelia says. It's no wonder that creatures of the wild assume important roles in her stories.