Description
The tragic tale of a Montana family ripped apart by scandal and murder: "a significant and elegant addition to the fiction of the American West" (Washington Post).
In the summer of 1948, twelve-year-old David Hayden witnessed and experienced a series of cataclysmic events that would forever change the way he saw his family. The Haydens had been pillars of their small Montana town: David's father was the town sheriff; his uncle Frank was a war hero and respected doctor. But the family's solid foundation was suddenly shattered by a bombshell revelation.
The Hayden's Sioux housekeeper, Marie Little Soldier, tells them that Frank has been sexually assaulting his female Indian patients for years--and that she herself was his latest victim. As the tragic fallout unravels around David, he learns that truth is not what one believes it to be, that power is abused, and that sometimes one has to choose between loyalty and justice.
Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize
Author: Larry Watson
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 05/25/2007
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781571310613
ISBN10: 1571310614
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Westerns | General