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“We Love Those Among Whom We Have Spent the Day”

Book Excerpt: Secret City

By Katherine Smith | December 1, 2022

“We Love Those Among Whom We Have Spent the Day” is included in Secret City, Katherine Smith’s 2022 collection from Madville Publishing.

Distant Sons

Tim Johnston
Algonquin Books
400 pages
$29

“Tim Johnston has once again raised the bar for the literary thriller. Distant Sons is elegant and edgy, refined and complex. It excavates the truth from the darkest recesses of the past and shines a light towards the possibility of a redemptive future.”

~ Ivy Pochoda, author of These Women and Sing Her Down