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Overview"""An elegiac, hopeful historical novel... hypnotic."" (Kirkus Reviews) ""An extraordinary new historical novel."" (Akron Beacon Journal) ON A HUMID MORNING in 1806, on the edge of Ohio's Great Black Swamp, seventeen-year-old Susanna Quiner watches helplessly from behind a tree as a band of Potawatomi Indians kidnaps her four older sisters from their cabin. With both her parents dead from Swamp Fever and all the other settlers away in their fields, Susanna rashly decides to pursue them herself. What follows is a young woman's quest to save her sisters and the parallel story of her sisters' new lives. Over the next five months, Susanna tans hides in a Moravian missionary village; escapes down a river with a young native girl; discovers an eccentric white woman raising chickens in the middle of the Great Black Swamp; and becomes a servant in a Wyandot village longhouse. The man who is in love with her, Seth Spendlove, is in pursuit after he realizes that his father directed the kidnapping. Part Potawatomi but living a white man's life, Seth unwittingly sets off on his own quest to reclaim his heritage as he searches for Susanna and her sisters. THIEVING FOREST depicts the transformation of all five sisters as the Quiners contend with starvation, slavery, betrayal, and love. Fast paced and richly detailed, it paints a fascinating new picture of pioneer life among Native American communities, while telling a gripping tale of survival." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Martha Conway (Mystery Writers of America, Women's National Book Association, Left Coast Writers)Publisher: Noontime Books Imprint: Noontime Books Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780991618521ISBN 10: 0991618521 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 15 August 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAn elegiac, hopeful historical novel... hypnotic. (Kirkus Reviews) An extraordinary new historical novel. (Akron Beacon Journal) Author InformationMartha Conway is the author of The Underground River, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. Her novel Thieving Forest won the North American Book Award in Historical Fiction, and her first novel was nominated for an Edgar Award. Her short fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, The Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, and other publications. She is an instructor at Stanford University's Continuing Studies program in Creative Writing. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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