The Sacred Hoop

252 pp. "The Sacred Hoop is a unique experience in historical fiction. From a retelling of Genesis to the saga of the Steam God (the Transcontinental Railroad) in nineteenth-century America, Bill Broder has illuminated in fiction the larger chronicle of humankind's changing relationship with the Earth, the Gods, and the Universe." "In this allegorical treatment of man's changing relationship with the earth through the centuries, stories illustrated with contemporary art or artifacts capture those historical moments in which man's relationship with the natural world underwent radical."