Crow Mary av Kathleen Grissom

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<b>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of the “touching” (<i>The Boston Globe</i>) book club classics <i>The Kitchen House</i> and the “emotionally rewarding” (<i>Booklist</i>) <i>Glory Over Everything </i>returns with a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary—an indigenous woman torn between two worlds in 19th-century North America.</b><BR><BR>In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell’s past, falls in love with her husband.<BR><BR> The winter trading season passes peacefully. Then, on the eve of their return to Montana, a group of drunken whiskey traders slaughters forty Nakota&#82