The Power Line Nathan E. Parks Kristen Painter likes to balance

Kristen Painter likes to balance her obsessions with shoes and cats by making the lives of her characters miserable and surprising her readers with interesting twists

and purpose without religion

before Hans Christian Andersen

Anna is determined to reach the city of her dreams

Pittsburgh would become home

The Power Line Nathan E. Parks Kristen Painter likes to balanceIn the nineteen eighties, an amateur historian of the Adirondacks recorded the fading memories of an aging woodsman and bootlegger, searching for details about the old time fiddle player and rustic builder Fran Germaine. The woodsman's wild tales faded into dust more than once until the discovery of a diary kept by Rosalyn Orloff, the socialist writer and political theorist of the twenties and thirties, and reputed lover of the psychoanalyst Carl