num_pages: 224
description: A gripping gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950san ambitious eye-opening reckoning of history and small-town prejudices from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble. Since her mothers death Kit Crockett has lived with her grief-stricken father spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden fishing in a local stream and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day when Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road she is intrigued.Kit and her new neighbor Bella become fast friends. Both outsiders they take comfort in each others company. But malice lurks near their quiet bayou and Kit suddenly finds herself at the center of tragic fatal crime. Soon Kit is ripped from her home and Cherokee family and sent to Ashley Lordard a religious boarding school. Along with the other Native students Kit is stripped of her heritage force-fed Christian indoctrination and is sexually abused by the director. But Kit as strong-willed and shrewd as ever secretly keeps a journal recounting what she remembersand revealing just what she has forgotten. Over the course of Stealing she slowly unravels the truth of how she ended up at the schooland plots a way out. In swift sharp and stunning prose Margaret Verble spins a powerful coming-of age tale and reaffirms her place as an indelible storyteller and chronicler of history.
language: English
title: Stealing
publisher: Mariner Books