TY - BOOK AU - Krivak,Andrew TI - Like the appearance of horses: a novel T2 - Dardan Trilogy SN - 9781954276130 AV - PS3561.R569 L55 2023 U1 - 811/.54 23 PY - 2023/// CY - New York, NY PB - Bellevue Literary Press KW - Families KW - Fiction KW - Fathers and sons KW - Veterans KW - Psychic trauma KW - Families of military personnel KW - Pennsylvania KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - War fiction KW - Domestic fiction N1 - Subtitle from cover N2 - "The third book in the Dardan Trilogy, following The Sojourn and The Signal Flame."--; Rooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I, Like the Appearance of Horses immerses us in the intimate lives of a family whose fierce bonds have been shaped by the great conflicts of the past century. After Bexhet Konar escapes fascist Hungary and crosses the ocean to find Jozef, the man who saved his life in 1919, he falls in love with Jozef's daughter, Hannah, enlists in World War II, and is drawn into a personal war of revenge. Many years later, their youngest son, Samuel, is taken prisoner in Vietnam and returns home with a heroin addiction and deep physical and psychological wounds. As Samuel travels his own path toward healing, his son will graduate from Annapolis as a Marine on his way to Iraq ER -