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A rowdy, exuberant, heart-grabbing blast of an adventure, Missy begins in 1862 with Dol McQueen, nineteen year old prostitute and opium user, heading for a boomtown in the American West. On the way she prevents a man from hanging himself only to discover he is a murderous pimp…
I absolutely love stories which have characters on journeys and quests, like Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson and a wonderful South Seas novel he wrote called The Ebb Tide. Then there's Gulliver's Travels and a second century novel by Lucius Apuleius about a man who is metamorphosed into an ass, as well as American classics like As I Lay Dying.