Laird Hunt
American novelist whose Neverhome is a lyrical Civil War novel told by a woman who goes to war disguised as a man. His fiction ranges from Indiana to Nazi-occupied France with dreamlike intensity. He is one of the most original voices in contemporary American literary fiction.
Works
- NeverhomeCivil War novel following woman soldier's journey disguised as man serving in Union army
- Kind OneNarrative of enslaved woman and disabled former plantation owner seeking freedom together
- The Impossibly
- The Exquisite
- In the House in the Dark of the WoodsAtmospheric Gothic novel about woman and child lost in dark forest of psychological terror