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A- #AudioBookReview: Battle of the Round House by Tananarive Due
My Review: Battle of the Round House is a story within a story. It’s also a bit of fictionalized reality nestled inside a framing story that is ALSO fictionalized reality. And I loved the way it worked. It begins with that first bit of reality, of 75-year old Lucy Freeman, in 1936, participating in an oral history project that really existed as part of FDR’s Depression-era Works Progress Administration, otherwise known as the WPA. A young member of the Writers’ Project intended to interview Miss Freeman about her encounter with Marshal James “Wild Bill” Hickok, a meeting that occurred in 1871, when Lucy was around ten years old.
