THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand AcresRousing . . . Action-packed . . . A gripping story about love, fortitude, and convictions that are worth fighting for.--Los Angeles TimesA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKPOWERFUL . . . Smiley takes us back to Kansas in 1855, a place of rising passions and vast uncertainties. Narrated in the spirited, unsentimental voice of 20-year-old Lidie Newton, the novel is at once an ambitious examination of a turning point in history and the riveting story of one womans journey into uncharted regions of place and self.--Chicago TribuneA grand tale of the moral and political upheavals igniting antebellum frontier life and a heroine so wonderfully fleshed and unforgettable you will think you are listening to her story instead of reading it.
