Will I love Crow Mary?

Crow Mary feels very authentic - the setting, characters, Indian language , culture and customs - the history is interesting, compelling and at times exciting and terrifying.

Kathleen Grissom, the author, relies on her extraordinary author's ear to actually receive communications from real people long-gone from this world. She authenticates her writing with extensive research so that the reader quickly becomes a part of the story. Her characters are real, full of human emotions every reader can connect and sympathize with.

Crow Mary did not change my outlook on the oftentimes sad history of the Native American people and how… show more.

I love learning about little-known historic figures, especially women, whose remarkable lives have been overlooked. Author Kathleen Grissom does a marvelous job slipping fiction in between the known facts about Crow Mary, as the whites called her, or Goes First to her own Crow people, to take us deep into the life of a young woman who lived in two worlds but always remained true to herself and committed to her culture. Though the story is difficult, in some ways, it is nonetheless beautifully told and a compelling read.