Title: Useful girl
Description: A novel combining the stories of a contemporary Montana teen and an 1870s Cheyenne girl tells of Erin, a 17-year-old still raw from her mother's death and her father's distance, who doesn't know what to feel when her father's construction company unearths the bones of a Cheyenne girl. Erin's romance with a young Indian man, Charlie White Bird, dovetails with her imagined story of the girl, whom she calls Mo'é'ha'e. As Erin struggles to deal with being a white girl in love with a Native American, Mo'é'ha'e gradually overcomes her hatred for a captured white boy.
Subjects: Runaway teenagers, Death, Conservation and restoration, Teenage girls, Mothers, Antiquities, Fiction, Cemeteries, Cheyenne Indians, Teenage pregnancy, Indians of north america, fiction, Young women, fiction, Montana, fiction, Fiction, romance, contemporary
Places: Montana, Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (Mont.)