What Fiction are you reading this week, November 21, 2021?

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17. Just looked J A Konrath up & he has a bunch of titles named after drinks.

I just ordered a Bloody Mary from my library.

I'm almost finished with "When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky" by Margaret Verble.

Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, is determined to find her own way in the world. Two’s closest friend at Glendale is Hank Crawford, who loves horses almost as much as she does. He is part of a high-achieving, land-owning Black family. Neither Two nor Hank fit easily into the highly segregated society of 1920s Nashville.

When disaster strikes during one of Two’s shows, strange things start to happen at the park. Vestiges of the ancient past begin to surface, apparitions appear, and then the hippo falls mysteriously ill. At the same time, Two dodges her unsettling, lurking admirer and bonds with Clive, Glendale’s zookeeper and a World War I veteran, who is haunted—literally—by horrific memories of war. To get to the bottom of it, an eclectic cast of park performers, employees, and even the wealthy stakeholders must come together, making When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky an unforgettable and irresistible tale of exotic animals, lingering spirits, and unexpected friendship.

The story is written from the 3rd person omniscient point of view. I'm not sure I've ever read an omniscient POV before. The cast of characters is fairly big & the reader gets a glimpse into everyone's head, even the animals & the apparition. The author also uses a lot of sentence fragments which drives me crazy, being I'm old school & we try to avoid those or use them very sparingly. But the story is interesting. It takes place in Tennessee during the Scopes trial. One of the characters laments how many people deny science & I thought, some things never change.