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Lone Women

by Victor LaValle

A woman homesteads the Montana frontier with a locked trunk and a secret that killed her family.

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About Lone Women

In 1915, Adelaide flees California after a family catastrophe and heads to Montana as one of the “lone women” claiming land on the frontier. She carries a mysterious trunk and a terrible secret, both of which may decide whether she survives the harsh landscape.

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  • racism
  • classism
  • homophobia
  • transphobia
  • misgendering
  • gender-dysphoria
  • child-abuse
  • neglect
  • blood
  • injury-detail
  • murder
  • gun-violence
  • animal-death
  • child death
  • body horror
  • confinement

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