Bellefleur - Joyce Carol Oates

From one of our most distinguished authors comes her most ambitious novel to date: an elaborate series of interlocking tales of six generations of the Bellefleur family and more than a century of American history. By mingling actual historical events - such as the War of 1812, John Brown's abolitionist activities, and the building of the Erie Canal - with the magical and surreal, Joyce Carol Oates creates a world we recognize from within our deepest selves, from somewhere in our childhoods, where "the American dream" in each of us was born.