About the author:
\nSamuel Ligon is the author of four previous books of fiction\, i
ncluding Among the Dead and Dreaming\, Wonderland\,
Drift and Swerve\, and Safe in Heaven Dead\, and was co-edit
or\, with Kate Lebo\, of Pie &\; Whiskey: Writers Under the Influen
ce of Butter &\; Booze. His stories and essays have appeared in
An earlier version of Mi ller Cane: A True &\; Exact History was serialized for a year in Spokane&rsquo\;s weekly newspaper\, The Inlander\, as wel l as on Spokane Public Radio.
\n\nIn Miller Cane: A True &\; Exact History\, \;professional liar Mille r Cane is making a killing traveling around the country running therapy gr oups for survivors of mass shootings&mdash\;and business is booming. But j ust as his latest con is unfolding\, he&rsquo\;s interrupted by a call fro m Lizzie\, the woman he loves. It seems Lizzie&rsquo\;s in jail for shooti ng and wounding Connor\, an abusive former lover&mdash\;who wants custody of Lizzie&rsquo\;s eight-year-old daughter\, Carleen. Lizzie is adamant: M iller must keep Carleen from Connor\, taking her on the road with him in h is battered old motor home.
\nMeanwhile\, Miller&rsquo\;s former lif e as a history teacher and scholar catches up with him when his New York e ditor persuades him to contribute to a forthcoming history book. Miller ta kes Carleen to historical sites in the American West&mdash\;from the Whitm an Massacre site to the home of Laura Ingalls Wilder&mdash\;and begins wri ting his textbook entries. But dealing as he is with the stress of parenti ng Carleen while evading Connor and other threats\, Miller&rsquo\;s textbo ok sidebars become more and more . . . creative.
\nAs the two drive
toward their inescapable destiny\, Miller the liar struggles to say someth
ing true that he can bequeath to this child he&rsquo\;s grown to love.
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