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"A bred-in-the-bones storyteller."—Geraldine Brooks Canaan fills a vast canvas. Its points of reference are Richmond in the throes of Reconstruction; the trading floors of Wall Street, where men makes fortunes speculating on the war's consequences; a Virginia plantation, where the ruin of the South is written in wrenching detail; and the Great Plains, where the splendidly arrogant George Custer rides to his fate against Sitting Bull's warriors. This is the story of America over twenty years of its most turbulent history. The characters are black, white, red, ex-Union, and ex-Confederate; and the principal narrator is a Santee woman, She Goes Before, who marries an ex-slave. Through her eyes we witness the hanging of her father by whites in the mass execution of 1863, Red Cloud's banquet with President Grant, and that final confrontation on the bluffs above the Little Bighorn. "McCaig's extensive research is revealed in the book's rich historical detail and...

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Author

Mccaig, Donald

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393330465

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.82 / 5 (74 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14