Maud's Line

SKU: 9780544705241

Author:
Margaret Verble
Nation:
Cherokee
Book Type:
Paperback
Pages:
304
Publisher:
Houghlin Mifflin Harcourt
Copyright Date:
2016

Price:
Sale price$24.99

Description

Margaret Verble is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and Maud's Line is her debut novel chronicling the life and loves of a headstrong, earthy, and magnetic heroine. It is Eastern Oklahoma, 1928. Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail lives with her rogue father and sensitive brother on one of the allotments parcelled out by the U.S. Government to the Cherokees when their land was confiscated for Oklahoma's statehood. Maud's days are filled with hard work and simple pleasures, but often marked by violence and tragedy, a fact that she accepts with determined practicality. Her prospects for a better life are slim, but when a newcomer with good looks and books rides down her section line, she takes notice. Soon she finds herself facing a series of high-stakes decisions that will determine her future and those of her loved ones. Maud's Line is accessible, sensuous, and vivid. It will sit on the bookshelf alongside novels by Jim Harrison, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, and other beloved chroniclers of the American West and its people.

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