Jean Huets – författare

Like the stories told by speculative fiction masters Ray Bradbury and Margaret Atwood, ALT SAGAS bends genres to unfold the quandaries of our lives. Tragically displaced loyalty, a weird pocket of a forever war, aging, faith, revolution, the perils of revenge magic and of physical nonconformity, and more are explored on worlds strange, yet eerily familiar. "e;Huets is an endlessly inventive writer, grounding speculations about the future in well-researched mythologies of the past as we know it. In these five tour-de-force tales, space crusaders and lonely Calibans sift through the cultural rubble on a hunt for hope and connection. Where personal history is written in tattoos and scars, the transcendent narratives of capital-H History are often literary, and they bring Big Events home to the heart: a Norse saga, a Shakespearean tragedy, a Wild West showdown. Huets' imaginative takes on our cultural touchstones help to explain how we crashed our way into a frightening future; they also promise that we are more than the sum of our technology and our losses."e; — Susann Cokal, The Kingdom of Little Wounds and Breath and Bones"e;A fresh, smart and highly entertaining story collection."e; — Fred Leebron, The News Said It Was

A compelling novel… fast-paced and engrossing…. This is a book that readers will not want to put down…. — Historical Novel SocietyIn 1869 Virginia, three women mourning a little girl turn for comfort to Louis, a granite quarry foreman and Union veteran. Louis falls in love with the child's aunt, and his employer, but she is married, virtuous — unattainable. Seeking means to wed elsewhere, he brings a law suit against a cousin who ruined his father. The suit stirs up dead causes and deadly chicanery, while his relations with the mother and sister of the girl child grow dangerously intimate.Rooted in the beloved homeland whose cause he fought against with all his heart, Louis yearns for a woman who cannot be his and for a life that war and time have forever undone.He survived the war to save the nation, now he must survive its Reconstruction … and his own inner war…. Flawless revelation of that time and place. 5 STARS — Ron Andre, A Matter of FancyPraise for Jean Huets' The Bones You Have Cast Down"e;Enchanting and richly historical, dazzling and dark, heartwrenching and intoxicating."e; — Stuart R. Kaplan, The Encyclopedia of TarotJean Huets is author of several books, including With Walt Whitman, Himself, acclaimed as "e;a book of marvels"e; by poet Steve Scafidi and "e;a true Whitmanian feast"e; by Ed Folsom, editor of the Walt Whitman Review. Her contributions to "e;Disunion,"e; the New York Times' Civil War column, include one of its most-read features, "e;Boxers, Briefs, and Battles,"e; a Memorial Day piece, "e;The Union Dead,"e; and others. Her work can also be read in Civil War Monitor, The Brooklyn Rail, The Millions, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, North American Review, and other journals. She is co-founder of Circling Rivers press.