(Beautiful Dreamer brings a unique viewpoint to the American past, dealing with issues of race, perspective, and simple human nature in the startlingly real voices of early-twentieth-century Tennessee. Bigsby gives a remarkable edge to the claustrophobia, unease, and suspense as the characters race through forests, rivers and along railroads as time closes in on the novels surprising and dramatic showdown. Dark and gritty, Beautiful Dreamer traces the struggle between reluctant good and dedicated evil, where morality is a matter of life or death and the choices made have consequences as lasting as they are unexpected.

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