num_pages: 186
description: “From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them… “ So begins David Hayden’s story of what happened in Montana in 1948. The events of that cataclysmic summer permanently alter twelve-year-old David’s understanding of his family: his father, a small-town sheriff; his remarkably strong mother; David’s uncle Frank, a war hero and respected doctor; and the Haydens’ Sioux housekeeper, Marie Little Soldier, whose revelations turn the family’s life upside down as she relates how Frank has been molesting his female Indian patients. As their story 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 family loyalty and justice.
language: English
title: Montana 1948
titlecomplete: Montana 1948
genres: Classics, Adult Fiction, Novels, Young Adult, School, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 14439
places: Montana
awards: awardedAt: -62167190400000
name: Milkweed Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Milkweed Editions