This is the true history of Hannah Guttentag's graduate schooling/captivity: lust, love, marriage, motherhood, cuckoldry, widowhood, and early American literature. Gone are the days when natives kidnap Puritan women, march them into the woods, and sell them to the French. By 1990, women enter the woods, get Ph.D.s, natives summer on Cape Cod, and the French are theorists. Josh Russell's first novel, Yellow Jack , earned him a fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference; his second, My Bright Midnight , earned him a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and won the Independent Publisher Book Awards bronze medal in literary fiction. He lives in Decatur, Georgia and is Co-Director of the Georgia State University Creative Writing Program.