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She tackled a more disturbing subject in her book Witness.

Here, the newly invigorated Klan of the 1920s ( in this book, 1924 and ' 25 ) tries to take over a small Vermont town.

The book is written from the perspectives of several people-Merlin Van Tornhout and Johnny Reeves, both members of the Ku Klux Klan, Sara Chickering, a farmer, Esther Hirsh, a six-year-old Jewish girl, Leonora Sutter, an African American girl, Iris Weaver, a resteraunteur, Harvey and Viola Pettibone, who are shop owners, Reynard Alexander, a newspaper editor, Fitzgerald Flitt, the doctor, and Percelle Johnson, the town constable.

In Witness Hesse continues the distinctive poetic / prose style she pioneered in Out of the Dust.