Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are
"suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting" (Publishers Weekly)
Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple
continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective
stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on
our past and present. "An Outtake" chronicles an escaped slave's take on liberty
and the American Revolution; "The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows"
presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a
nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; "The Aeronauts" soars between bustling
Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War;
"Rivers" portrays