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    Winter Book Reviews

    May 31, 2018 4 minutes
    by Mark Laurie.

    A Shout in the Ruins

    by Kevin Powers

    Published by Sceptre

    ISBN 9781473667785

    $29.99

    Fresh from his award-winning debut with The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers continues to explore humans at war and how they endure its aftermath – this time in civil war Virginia. Centering on the conflict itself, and upon the race-based slavery which was its pretext, Powers intertwines characters and their narratives over two generations, rendering this part of his homeland’s history as one of a grasping, abusive and violent power struggle. The stories he weaves demonstrate all of life’s vagaries; that survival and circumstances may be the result of random, dispassionate fates meted out when societal rules are

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