WHAT THE ICE HELD

Seventy Times Seven is the book the country read: an account by N. B. Cutler of one winter at Bethel Fork, the church on the hill, and the woman it names as responsible.

This is her copy. Every page carries her hand — corrections, dates, the parts Cutler got wrong, and the parts he could not have known to get wrong. She does not deny all of it. She denies the order he put it in.

Sixty-six chapters in five books and a coda, told twice at once: the published version, and the one written in the margin beside it.