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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 they were exploited and cheated by whites, but it did corroborate what I have learned about this ugly time for all Americans.
Crow Mary is the kind of book readers will think about long after reading it.
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping and “richly detailed story of a woman caught between two cultures” (Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author) inspired by the real life of Crow Mary—an Indigenous woman in 19th-century North America.
In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Earling's choice to explore language as she wrote about a young woman -- a girl, really -- best known as an interpreter was brilliant. It takes some effort to get into the rhythm of the language and follow the story -- not a strictly linear narrative -- but the payoff is a deeper understanding and compassion for a woman kidnapped by an enemy tribe, sold into marriage, and conscripted into a long and difficult journey. Earling's Lewis & Clark are not the brave men of myth and written American history. Yet the real story is Sacajawea, and her deep spiritual connection to the land they crossed, a connection that kept her and her young son alive.
Winner of the American Book Award Winner of the Montana Book Award Winner of the PNBA Book Award
"In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe's rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare trees scratched sky. Cold was endless. He moved through trees like strikes of sunlight. My Bia said he came with bad intentions, like a Water Baby's cry."
Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling brings this mythologized figure vividly…
