Fiction Set in Vermont 3

Vermont's Greatest Literary Detective Writes Again! Author Ann McKinstry Micou completes her trilogy of reference books dedicated to her beloved Green Mountain state with Fiction Set in Vermont 3. By all accounts, Micou’s signature achievement is the first and only catalog of fiction penned by authors who set their historical novels, their mysteries, their science fiction, their children’s books, their short stories, their plays, and other literary achievements in the state renowned for its fall foliage, its snowstorms, and its often quirky denizens. But Micou’s Fiction Set in Vermont 3 is more than just a cataloging of titles. Every book—each one read by Micou—includes an elegant description of its contents. And there is a work of fiction set in Vermont to tempt every reader from the earliest known novel about the state (Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Redwood, written in 1824) to to Horatio Alger’s Madeline the Temptress to Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint to Janet Evanovich’s Wife for Hire, novels by John Irving, Paul Auster, Irwin Shaw, Chris Bohjalian, and Anita Shreve, to short stories by Shirley Jackson, Pearl Buck, Wilkie Collins, O. Henry, Edna O'Brien, Sherwood Anderson, Ursula Le Guin, and John Updike, as well as Howard Frank Mosher’s 2010 novel Walking to Gatlinburg, and so much more. Fiction Set in Vermont 3 is far more than a reference to be consulted from time to time. It’s a literary acheivement in its own right, an armchair traveler’s tour of a select bookstore with a charming and knowledgeable guide. “As with an analysis of the innards of a chronograph, this is compulsive stuff, and—at first—a little daunting, before you begin to read and read. A compelling, seductive, finally addictive piece of research, Micou’s reference is as wonderful to behold as it must have been challenging to undertake. A feat, true enough, but a laudable and valuable achievement.” —Archer Mayor, author of The Price of Malice