Yet in the Land of the Living

Long: Yet in the Land of the Living, a work of contemporary/historical fiction, takes us into protagonist GRACE STOREY'S deep dive into dual mysteries about her great-great-grandfather and a contemporary soldier injured in Iraq. Grace's search arises both out of empathy and an attempt to come to terms with her own devastating losses of her mother, brother, and husband. The novel is structured around Grace's interpretation of her ancestor's Civil War letters to his waiting wife in order to f...