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Review ------ “In this robust, relentless, inquisitive, and astutely balanced novel of social conflict, Oates portrays with unfailing nuance two troubled men on the site sides of the ever-fraught -rights debate” (Booklist (starred review)) “The most relevant book of Oates’s half-century-long career, a powerful reminder that fiction can be as timely as this morning’s tweets but infinitely more illuminating.” (Washington Post) “Successful because [Oates] refuses to satirize or dehumanize anyone, even murderous foes of ...With its wrath and violence, A Book of American Martyrs offers this teaspoon of warmth in these troubled times: that it is possible to be wrong without surrendering your humanity.” (Los Angeles Times) “Oates’ American saga captivates because it exists within an actual drama playing out across the country...Martyrs is a graceful and excruciating story of two families who do not live very far apart, but exist in different realities. ” --USA Today, 4-star review (USA Today) “Oates reminds of an uncomfortable truth: The issue of is so divisive and keenly felt precisely because of its messy moral and emotional questions.” (New York Times Book Review) Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) From the Back Cover ------------------- In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet ly linked American families. Luther Dunphy is a zealous evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an provider in his small Ohio town, while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic but self-regarding doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children red and embittered by grief. In her moving, keenly observed portrait, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely—but with great empathy—confronts an intractable, abiding rift in American society. A Book of American Martyrs is a stunning, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred. Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) See all Editorial Reviews ( /dp/product-description/0062643053/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books&isInIframe=0 )