The author wrote a good and lurid novel about police corruption in New York - ‘In the Cut’ - some years ago.
This is completely different – a partly true novel about a woman, Sarah, if indeed that is her real name, in the mid-19th century who ends up living with her family on the periphery of Indian reservations.
Relations between the settlers and the indigenous Indians are functional until the settlers run out of money to pay for the land they are supposed to be buying from the Indians, leading to revolt and conflict. Sarah and her kids are rescued by the Indians but has to pretend to be the wife of one of them to save her life.
After the conflict, her Indian ‘husband’ is (I think) hanged for his part in the rebellion and she suffers opprobrium in the white community for having apparently slept with the enemy.
Very different and worth reading.
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