Historical Fiction Virtual Blog Tours Presents….
Cherokee America
By Margaret Verble
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud’s Line, 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.
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.
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.
Cherokee America 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.
“In Verble’s hands, this tale of a mother’s love and her
gritty resolve in a shameful era of false promises and broken treaties makes
for a rich, propulsive novel.”
Publishers Weekly
“Highly recommended for readers of literary historical fiction in the vein of Lalita Tademy’s Citizen’s Creek and Paulette Jiles’s News of the World.”
Library Journal, STARRED review
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Margaret
Verble
Margaret Verble
is an enrolled and voting citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a
member of a large Cherokee family that has, through generations, made many
contributions to the tribe’s history and survival. Although many of her family
have remained in Oklahoma to this day, and some still own and farm the land on
which the book is set, Margaret was raised in Nashville, Tennessee, and
currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Many of the characters of Maud’s Line are based on people Margaret knew
as a child and the setting is land she roamed for many years of her life. In
part, Margaret wrote this book to keep those people and that land alive in her
heart.
Margaret’s new novel, Cherokee America, will be released by Houghton,
Mifflin, Harcourt on Feb. 19, 2019. A prequel to Maud’s Line, it is set in 1875
in the Arkansas River bottoms of the old Cherokee Nation West.
Margaret is a member of the Authors Guild and Western Writers of
America.
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