The Various Peter Swanson but above all it is

but above all it is a portrait of a man who will never put Vietnam behind him--the war is inside him

The Loop charts her struggle

many years ago

Fesperman moves seamlessly between time schemes as the past informs and impacts on the present - and nowhere is this more evident than in the Balkans with its traumatic history

laugh-out-loud banter

The Various Peter Swanson but above all it isA gritty and captivating story of courage and strength against terrible odds, this is the story of Midge, abandoned with her eccentric uncle during the holidays, and her adventures with the Various, a band of earthily realistic fairies. The existence of the Various, who are strange, wild and sometimes even deadly, has been kept secret since the beginning of time, but when their world begins to clash with that of human beings, their livelihood is