<div><div><B>“Lyrical and humorous . . . A rich and intricate novel full of compassion for these pioneers and the place they live.” — <I>Saint Paul Pioneer Press</I><BR><br> “Vibrant.” — NPR, <I>Weekend Edition Saturday</I><BR><br> "Told in a vigorous and warmly resonant prose that captures both the ridiculous and the sublime.” — Historical Novel Society</B><BR><br> Clement and Angel are fraternal twins separated at birth; they grow up in the same small, frontier logging town of Stillwater, Minnesota. Clement was left at the orphanage. Angel was adopted by the town's richest couple, but is marked and threatened by her adoptive mother's manic attention. They rarely meet, but Clement knows if he is truly in need, Angel will come. They have both learned to survive at the edge of things — amid the hardscrabble lives of pioneers, nuns, fur trappers, loggers, runaway slaves and freedmen, outlaws and people of conscience, all seeking a freer, more prosperous future. <I>Stillwater</I> is a lyrical, vibrant, often hilarious, and always unforgettable journey into our past, ourselves, and the impulses that drive us to create, explore, and — sometimes — destroy.</div></div>