Cherokee America

<strong>From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist <em>Maud's Line</em> an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War and the unforgettable woman at its center.</strong> <p/><strong>Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award (Best Western Traditional Novel)</strong> <p/> It's the early spring of 1875 in the Cherokee Nation West. A baby a black hired hand a bay horse a gun a gold stash and a preacher have all gone missing. Cherokee America Singer known as Check a wealthy farmer mother of five boys and soon-to-be widow is not amused. <p/> In this epic of the American frontier several plots intertwine around the heroic and resolute Check: her son is caught in a compromising position that results in murder; a neighbor disappears; another man is killed. The tension mounts and the violence escalates as Check's mixed race family friends and neighbors come together to protect their community--and painfully expel one of their own. <p/><em>Cherokee America</em> vividly and often with humor explores the bonds--of blood and place of buried histories and half-told tales of past grief and present injury--that connect a colorful eclectic cast of characters anchored by the clever determined and unforgettable Check.