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Violence
Some
Frontier violence; death; a murder plot
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of frontier life, death, and the strange persistence of the living
What this book is about
Dillard's 1992 novel follows early settlers in what would become Bellingham, Washington, from 1855 through the 1890s. Features period violence and frontier hardship. For adults.
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Frontier violence
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