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Minnesota Cold is an excellent read – for you or your book club. Here’s what others are saying:
“This thoughtful science-fiction novel is a lovely, haunting tale that opens when seventy-year-old Sallie Dodge learns she has been chosen to die. Sallie decides to fight the powers that be in the Minnesota Territory, which has broken away from the United States after a nuclear holocaust. The thoroughness of Cynthia Kraack’s depiction of a world only a decade or so in the future is very compelling, encompassing the wonders of modern medicine with the havoc bio-testing might do to humans, but always staying grounded in the ways of the human heart.”
- Mary Logue, author of Point No Point
“Sallie Dodge and her oldest children remember life before the worldwide economic collapse, while her younger children were born in the midst of the ensuing turmoil. She laments that her youngest children have no memory of the old social and political order, but Sallie, whose husband had a hand in creating the new society, also remembers the hard times when people went hungry. When Sallie’s life is threatened by her own obsolescence, she dusts off her late husband’s journals and reluctantly grasps the too-steep price of comfort. Cynthia Kraack has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking thriller of a middle-aged woman’s odyssey to preserve her existence, protect her family, and overthrow the government. The twists and turns in Sallie’s journey will keep the reader flipping the pages. Best, though, to keep a pair of mukluks close. Minnesota Cold is chilling.”
- Charles Locks, author of Greater Trouble in Lesser Antilles
