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Miller Cane: A True & Exact History
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $39.00
ISBN13: 9781639822362
Publisher: Slant Books
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Professional liar Miller Cane is making a killing traveling around the country running therapy groups for survivors of mass shootings-and business is booming. But just as his latest con is unfolding, he's interrupted by a call from Lizzie, the woman he loves. It seems Lizzie's in jail for shooting and wounding Connor, an abusive former lover-who wants custody of Lizzie's eight-year-old daughter, Carleen. Lizzie is adamant: Miller must keep Carleen from Connor, taking her on the road with him in his battered old motor home.
Meanwhile, Miller's former life as a history teacher and scholar catches up with him when his New York editor persuades him to contribute to a forthcoming history book. Miller takes Carleen to historical sites in the American West-from the Whitman Massacre site to the home of Laura Ingalls Wilder-and begins writing his textbook entries. But dealing as he is with the stress of parenting Carleen while evading Connor and other threats, Miller's textbook sidebars become more and more . . . creative.
As the two drive toward their inescapable destiny, Miller the liar struggles to say something true that he can bequeath to this child he's grown to love.
Miller Cane: A True & Exact History is set in our tumultuous present, swimming in violence and fraud, but it's also about how we care for each other, even save each other, with a narrative drive and sense of humor in the tradition of other American road novels, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to The Sisters Brothers. Painfully true and painfully funny, Miller Cane will take its place alongside such classics as True Grit and Paper Moon.
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