Above The Strand Percival Everett wry and bookish history student

wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path

there may well be a traitor in their midst

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Everything with him is wild and impulsive

Above The Strand Percival Everett wry and bookish history studentGalveston, Texas. Late nineteenth century. A city built on confidence and surrounded by water. At the height of its power, Galveston believes itself untouchable. Its wharves pulse with global trade, its brick warehouses and counting houses rise with quiet authority, and above the docks out of sight and unrecorded decisions are made that determine who prospers, who waits, and who is erased from the ledger. Elmina Cross moves easily through these unseen