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I was first captivated by David Rhodes when I read his later novels Driftless and Jewelweed, both set in the fictional town of Words, Wisconsin. It was in Driftless that I first encountered the character July Montgomery, and I was excited to explore this character’s origins in Rock Island Line, which follows July from unincorporated Sharon Center, Iowa, to Philadelphia and back again. The novel explores themes of tragedy, redemption, and renewal, and, like Rhodes’s later novels, is concerned wit
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