One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
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Olivia Hawker
From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier. Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn't think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse. Losing her husband to Cora's indiscretion is another hardship for stoic Nettie Mae. But as a brutal Wyoming winter bears down, Cora and Nettie Mae have no choice but to come together as one family--to share the duties of working the land and raising their children. There's Nettie Mae's son, Clyde--no longer a boy, but not yet a man--who must navigate the road to adulthood without a father to guide him, and Cora's daughter, Beulah, who is as wild and untamable as her prairie home. Bound by the uncommon threads in their lives and the challenges that lie ahead, Cora and Nettie Mae begin to forge an unexpected sisterhood. But when a love blossoms between Clyde and Beulah, bonds are once again tested, and these two resilient women must finally decide whether they can learn to trust each other--or else risk losing everything they hold dear.
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Author
Olivia Hawker
Pages
496
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Published Date
2019
ISBN
1542006910 9781542006910
Ratings
Google: 5
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"I enjoyed this book, however I found it very wordy and I was able to skip paragraphs and pages without missing any of the story."
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Maria B
"Pulls you in like Where The Crawdads Sing with vivid descriptions of the prairie in the Wild West. Narrative from each character describing the scene and their private thoughts you feel you are really there as a silent observer. The breadth of human emotions is explored…. It’s a book to get lost in when you want to escape to another world."
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Angela Penrod
"This is one of the best novels I have ever read, and it is by far the best historical fiction novel I have come across. Each chapter is in a different character’s point of view, so readers are able to truly understand the characters and how the extreme situations they face impact each of them individually. It is such a well rounded novel that I am able to recommend it to people who enjoy stories that focus on frontier struggles, romance, drama, and/or survival and it encompasses it all plus some."
"I enjoyed listening to this book. Narration was excellent. It took me awhile to get through it not because it wasn’t good but because I only listened while cooking, cleaning and gardening. It was very well done and each time I opened up for a listen it took me into a dream, a trance, a simpler time for the characters and story to develop. It seemed poetic. It reminded me of some of the books I’ve read where the main character is Chinese or another one where the protagonist was Japanese. Hope you enjoy it.
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