Cherokee America
Description
This Spur Award-winning novel of the Cherokee Nation follows an epic saga of family alliances and culture clashes in the aftermath of the Civil War. Cherokee Nation West, 1875. It's early in spring, and a baby has gone missing-along with a preacher, a black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, and a stash of gold. Cherokee America Singer is not amused. Known as "Check," the wealthy farmer and soon-to-be-widowed mother of five boys has enough to deal with already. In this epic of the American frontier, several plots intertwine around the heroic and resolute Check: her son is caught in a compromising position that results in murder; a neighbor disappears; another man is killed. The tension mounts and the violence escalates as Check's mixed race family, friends, and neighbors come together to protect their community at any cost-even if it requires expelling one of their own.
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MARGARET VERBLE is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Her first novel, Maud's Line,was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.Her second novel, Cherokee America,has recently been listed by the New York Timesas one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year for 2019. She lives inLexington, Kentucky.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Cast of Characters
- The Coming of the Owl
- More Than She Came For
- The Search for Gold
- George Hops a Ride
- Justice
- The Marshals Come to Town
- Authorâ?Ts Note
- Acknowledgments
- A Conversation with Margaret Verble
- Sample Chapters from WHEN TWO FEATHERS FELL FROM THE SKY
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- About the Author
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