Morning of a Crescent Moon

A woman set on leaving nursing and the wars behind finds that war follows her wherever she goesand this time it's a civil battle with the mine workers in Virden, Illinois. In Morning of a Crescent Moon, N. J. Schrock renders the tumult of the 1898 Battle of Virden with a storyteller's grace, fusing historical truth with imagined lives. Against the backdrop of labor unrest and the gathering storm ...