Like the Puritan-era narratives she studies, Hannah Guttentag's early-1990s narrative is a chronicle of the strange places she travels--Nashville, Ithaca, New Orleans, Cleveland, Nebraska--the savages who captivate her--librarians, grad students, professors, her baby--and the redemption she earns. Josh Russell's previous novels areYellow Jack andMy Bright Midnight. An Illinois native--born in Carbondale, raised in Normal--he now lives in Decatur, Georgia with his wife and daughter.