Yesterday's issue of Hut's Place, the weekly newsletter by Hut Landon, bookseller and former executive director of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (now part of the California Independent Booksellers Alliance), features The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich (Harper), "a new novel about a prairie community struggling against a nationwide economic meltdown," and The Message by Ta-Nahisi Coates (One World), "a probing examination of the power of stories to distort reality and encourage injustice." In addition, he notes the paperback publication of North Woods by Daniel Mason (Random House), which focuses on the many inhabitants of an abode in western Massachusetts over the centuries.
