Nafissa Thompson-Spires — The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford - with Nic Stone — at Union Market

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From the author of the multi award winning, National Book Award–longlisted, "vivid, fast, funny, way smart, and verbally inventive" George Saunders story collection Heads of the Colored People, comes a sly, spry, tall tale of a debut novel about the murder of an infamous moonshiner and the cacophony of true stories a small town can tell about itself. Rich Milford is dead. At last. We find ourselves in Oklahoma, just far enough out of Tulsa, just long enough after the Massacre of 1921. For as long as anyone can remember, the Milfords have led plentiful lives on the backs of the townspeople of Newville. Now, on the ominous brink of the Great Depression and at the height of Prohibition, Richard Milford is an infamous moonshiner and womanizer and, it seems, finally crossed…

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