![]() ![]() ![]() NPR commentator Alan Cheuse's latest novel is Song of Slaves in the Desert. For all of its frozen setting the novel seems like the perfect story to keep you turning pages through the end of winter, whether tethered to your bed by the flu or on some southern island where you might be hiding out to escape the cold. But scene by scene, chapter by chapter, this book rushes along. ![]() I have to confess that the supernatural elements in the book gave me a little trouble. He struggles against the seemingly supernatural wolves that guard the island’s graveyard against all intruders and the persistent band of Alaskan cheats, drunks and seamen intent on stealing whatever booty they believe to be buried in this out-of-the-way location. With the help of the beautiful mainland-educated mayor Nika Tincook, the good doctor struggles against the old woman - can it be Anastasia herself? - who paces about the upper part of the small island holding a yellow lantern in the midst of the worst of Bering Sea storms. Robert Masello is the author of three novels & ten nonfiction books, including A Friend in the Business. ![]()
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