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BIG RIVER.(Brookland)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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Where do the dead go? Prudence Winship, the heroine of Emily Barton's beautiful second novel, "Brookland" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $25), decided around the age of six that she had the answer. The year was 1778. Prue lived in Brooklyn, where her father owned a gin distillery. She was an only child, and dark-minded. But in those days, as she tells us, looking back on her youth, you didn't have to have a morbid cast of mind to think about death. For years, British soldiers, affable boys, had been camped in Brooklyn; they vanished daily. Fevers swept through the village, taking mothers, children. "It seemed," Prue says, "I saw the dead as often as I saw the living . . . ...

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