Warm A recent post about Kathleen Eagle's books made me stop and think. This book is one of the reasons why. Beautiful writing is a given for Kathleen Eagle. She could write stereo instructions and I'd buy them - in hardback.
Scenes are never overwritten and no strings are left dangling.
But the best thing is the believability of her characters and their actions. When you read one of her books, you know this is how the story is supposed to happen. Clara Pipestone is a white middle-class woman. She meets her husband, Ben, while she is interviewing his father, Dewey, a wicasa wakan - a holy man of the Lakota Sioux. Dewey's stories keep Clara coming back to the reservation and within months she has fallen hard for Ben's cowboy Indian charm.