Lead Review

• Book: Southern Cross The Dog
• Location: Mississippi
• Author: Bill Cheng

Lisa Newman, a bookseller at Lemuria, said on Tuesday that she was midway through the novel and was questioning how Mr. Cheng could have possibly captured the people and the dialects so accurately.

“The last question as I finish reading ‘Southern Cross the Dog’: Does Bill Cheng have such an extraordinary writing ability as to tap into what is universally human and overcome the limitations of being an outsider?” she wrote in an e-mail. “But all questions aside, I cannot put ‘Southern Cross the Dog’ down and passage after passage of remarkable writing and unforgettable characters will propel me to the end.”
NY Times

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