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"The real clue to this mystery lies in its title, referring to the half-tent an American infantryman once carried with him to the battlefield, and buttoned to someone else's half for mutual a covert metaphor provisioned with foregiveness and trust."-- O, The Oprah Magazine Does loving-kindness to friends, family, town, and church cover your complicity in . . . distant wrongs? Carol Bly . . . is fully responsive to the evils done in our name and with our tacit consent.Tobias Wolff , in the introduction to My Lord Bag of New and Selected Stories What the reader will remember is Carol Blys spiritual and moral intelligence as glimpsed through the valor of these vibrant characters.Tess Gallagher, The New York Times Book Review A young womans body lay undisturbed for a week in mid-November. So begins Shelter Half , a novel about a few people in a northern Minnesota town. Some of themthe town cop, the doctor, and a young couple in loveare smart enough to recognize cruelty that comes at them from huge organizations far outside the town limits. They are not chicken. They dont duck. If their nation and their world look grisly, they still do what they can for love and justice. They look out f

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Author

Bly, Carol

Publisher

Duluth, Minn.: Holy Cow! Press ; Jackson, Tenn.: Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780977945863

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Thriller, Fiction

Rating

3.16 / 5 (56 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14