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With The Killing Ground Mary Lee Settle completes her grand design for The Beulah Quintet, an unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom. The novel begins in 1978 with the return of Hannah McKarkle to her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, from which she set out nearly two decades before to remove the shroud of mystery surrounding her brother's death. In her attempt to understand his murder, Hannah pieces together a collective history of Canona and peels away the facades that mask its "best people". In addition to revealing the love affairs, hatreds, resentments, and hypocrisies of Canona's ruling class, she becomes acquainted with the community's unpretentious citizenry with whom her fate is equally tied. Hannah's quest reveals a heritage that extends back to Johnny Church of Prisons, bringing the story of The Beulah Quintet full circle and yielding a tale told with moving conviction.
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Mary Lee Settle was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and has lived in England, Turkey, and New York. Her novel
Blood Tie won the National Book Award and her novel
Choices received the Lillian Smith Award for fiction. Settle's other works include the novels
Charley Bland, Celebration, The Clam Shell, The Love Eaters, The Kiss of Kin and a memoir,
All the Brave Promises. Settle now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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In 1978 Hannah McKarkle returns to her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, where she sets out to remove the mystery that has surrounded her brother's murder for over 20 years. Her search for truth reveals a heritage that extends back to Johnny Church of "Prisons", completing "The Beulah Quintet".
