The New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything presents a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary, an indigenous woman navigating two worlds in 19th-century North America. In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries white fur trader Abe Farwell, who renames her Mary. They embark on a journey to his trading post in Saskatchewan, where she befriends a Métis woman named Jeannie and makes an enemy of a wolfer named Stiller. Despite discovering a dark secret about Farwell, Mary falls in love with him. Their peaceful winter trading season is shattered when a group of drunken whiskey traders slaughters forty Nakota, and Mary witnesses the murderers, including Stiller, abduct five Nakota women. When Farwell refuses to intervene, Mary takes matters into her own hands, arming herself and rescuing the women from the fort, igniting a clash of cultures that tests her marriage and the love between her and Farwell. This narrative spans decades and explores the beauty of the upper West and Canada while delving into the complexities of marriage and one woman's heart.
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Criada en una granja en las praderas canadienses, los libros fueron la ventana de la autora al mundo, dada la falta de televisión en su hogar de infancia. La lectura temprana encendió una poderosa imaginación y un profundo deseo de aventura, experiencias que darían forma a su viaje literario. Animada por el director de su escuela secundaria, persiguió la escritura a través de diversos caminos de vida, incluida la enfermería y la publicidad. Trasladándose a una granja en Nueva Jersey y luego a Virginia, se dedicó a la escritura diaria y se unió a una sociedad literaria, beneficiándose de la tutoría de una poetisa talentosa. La investigación de la historia de su granja y el paisaje circundante se convirtió en una profunda fuente de inspiración para su obra narrativa.
When 7-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy plantation owner, she is absorbed into the life of the kitchen house and becomes part of the family of black slaves whose fates are tied to the plantation. But Lavinia's skin will always set her apart, whether she wishes it or not. And as she grows older, she will be torn between the life that awaits her as a white women and the people she knows as kin.