Malheur August AUTH-9765932 James Brady was a baby-faced

James Brady was a baby-faced Marine in charge of a combat platoon during the Korean War

growing old

and purchasing his own dog he realized he didn't know as much as he could

or was it part of a larger plot to take over the town and shut down the work going on at the secret command center

where only her quick wit and determination can save her from starvation

Malheur August AUTH-9765932 James Brady was a baby-facedMalheur August opens with a map of Malheur County, OR and its Malheur River. "Malheur" means "bad time," we're told and Nancy Minor plays with that notion skillfully. Set in 1971 with substantial flashback to the 1940s, her novel becomes an utterly convincing portrait of life in rural Oregon a generation or two ago. (Think of Grant Wood joking around with Dorothea Lange.) Our protagonist, Jean Algood, spends her last home from college summer, the