Malheur August AUTH-9765932 illuminates how history becomes an

illuminates how history becomes an instrument of politics

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Malheur August AUTH-9765932 illuminates how history becomes anMalheur August opens with a map of Malheur County, OR and its Malheur River. "Malheur" means "bad time," we're told and Nancy Minor plays with that notion skillfully. Set in 1971 with substantial flashback to the 1940s, her novel becomes an utterly convincing portrait of life in rural Oregon a generation or two ago. (Think of Grant Wood joking around with Dorothea Lange.) Our protagonist, Jean Algood, spends her last home from college summer, the