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What You Find in the Woods and other stories, by J.D. Austin

victor April 1, 2025 April 3, 2025Adult Fiction, Short Stories J.D. Austin, Mack Hassler 0
Book cover of "What You Find in the Woods & Other Stories" by J.D. Austin. Features a faded forest background with a quote praising the book at the top. Text is in bold, large letters.

Review by Mack Hassler “…the novel is a reflection upon its own nature” Jean-Paul Sartre, Search for a Method, 1963 Usually in good fiction there is an autobiographical impulse that may be seen in the mode of storytelling.   In his later novels and stories, the great Romantic master of the…

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The Last Huck   By J.D. Austin

victor June 1, 2024 July 6, 2024Adult Fiction Copper Country, Deborah K. Frontiera, J.D. Austin, Keweenaw 0
Book cover for "the last huck" by j.d. austin featuring an impressionistic painting of three people walking in a misty, wooded landscape, highlighted by the mention of it being one of the most impressive debut novels of the decade.

Review by Deborah K. Frontiera In J.D. Austin’s The Last Huck, two brothers, Nick and Jacob (who is in prison during the main time of the story) and a cousin, Pete, are faced with the necessity of selling the last bit of family land in Upper Michigan’s Houghton County. They…

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