A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, & Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag — Josh Russell

Like the Puritan-era narratives she studies, Hannah Guttentag's early-1990s narrative is a chronicle of the strange places she travels -- Nashville, Ithaca, New Orleans, Cleveland, Nebraska -- the savages who captivate her -- librarians, grad students, professors, her baby -- and the redemption she earns.

Josh Russell's previous novels are Yellow Jack and My Bright Midnight. An Illinois native -- born in Carbondale, raised in Normal -- he now lives in Decatur, Georgia with his wife and daughter.