Searching for Survivors: 14 Stories

153 pp. "Set mostly in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, 'Searching for Survivors', with an old-fashioned Yankee precision and moral scrupulousness, explores contemporary forms of certain native American obsessions. In these stories, Russell Banks has translated and retold the tale of the Puritan "errand into the wilderness," portraying that errand as a dark compulsion and the wilderness as a tangle of guilt and discontent, revealing, as the fruits of that mission, habitual cruelty, separation, and finally, self-exile."