num_pages: 294
description: FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEA debut novel chronicling the life and loves of a headstrong earthy and magnetic heroineEastern Oklahoma 1928. Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail lives with her rogue father and sensitive brother on one of the allotments parceled out by the U.S. Government to the Cherokees when their land was confiscated for Oklahomas statehood. Mauds 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.Mauds 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.
language: English
title: Maud's Line
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt