On Bleeding Kansas. Bestseller Paretsky, who has tackled weighty issues in her V.I. Warshawski detective series (e.g., the Holocaust in Total Recall), weaves a gripping contemporary novel around three farm families—the Grelliers, Fremantles and Schapens—that can trace their Kaw Valley, Kans., roots back to the s, a time of violent clashes between antislavery and proslavery forces in Estimated Reading Time: 1 min. Bleeding Kansas. —. Sara Paretsky. In Kansas, on land that once saw some of America's bloodiest antislavery battles, three families have coexisted for more than one hundred fifty years: the Grelliers, the Fremantles, and the Schapens. Once allies in the fight against slavery, today the Schapens and the Grelliers disagree on every subject, from organic farming to the war in Iraq, but above all on religion. “Paretsky has demonstrated in Bleeding Kansas the superb skills as a novelist that were already known and admired by the avid followers of V.I. Warshawski.”— The Washington Post “The multigenerational narrative bristles with the kind of prickly social issues that give substance to /5().
Paretsky, Sara.   Bleeding Kansas / Sara Paretsky.     p.         cm.   ISBN: 1. Rural familiesâ Kansasâ Fiction. 2. Iraq War, â â Influenceâ Fiction. 3. Iraq War, â â Protest movementsâ Fiction. 4. Fundamentalistsâ Kansasâ Fiction. 5. PARETSKY, Sara. Bleeding Kansas. Read by Susan Ericksen. 14 cds. 17 hrs. Brilliance Audio. $ Vinyl; plot, reader notes. SA Lara (Lulu) at 15 has lost her brother Chip in the Iraq war and her mother Susan to her overwhelming grief. Bleeding Kansas. —. Sara Paretsky. In Kansas, on land that once saw some of America's bloodiest antislavery battles, three families have coexisted for more than one hundred fifty years: the Grelliers, the Fremantles, and the Schapens. Once allies in the fight against slavery, today the Schapens and the Grelliers disagree on every subject.
“Paretsky has demonstrated in Bleeding Kansas the superb skills as a novelist that were already known and admired by the avid followers of V.I. Warshawski.”— The Washington Post “The multigenerational narrative bristles with the kind of prickly social issues that give substance to Paretsky’s detective stories.”—. Reading Group Guide. Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up, Bleeding Kansas is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the s, when their ancestors settled the valley as antislavery emigrants. Bleeding Kansas. —. Sara Paretsky. In Kansas, on land that once saw some of America's bloodiest antislavery battles, three families have coexisted for more than one hundred fifty years: the Grelliers, the Fremantles, and the Schapens. Once allies in the fight against slavery, today the Schapens and the Grelliers disagree on every subject, from organic farming to the war in Iraq, but above all on religion.
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