Crow Mary

The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping and “richly detailed story of a woman caught between two cultures” (Sandra Dallas,New York Times bestselling author) inspired by the real life of Crow Mary—an Indigenous woman in 19th-century North America. In 1872sixteen-year-old Goes Firsta Crow Native womanmarries Abe Farwella white fur trader. He gives her the name Maryand they set off on the long trip to his trading post in SaskatchewanCanada. Along the wayshe finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell’s pastfalls in love with her husband. The winter trading season passes peacefully. Thenon the eve of their return to Montanaa group of drunken whiskey traders slaughters forty Nakota—despite Farwell’s efforts to stop them. Maryhiding from the hail of bulletssees the murderersincluding Stillertake five Nakota women back to their fort. She begs Farwell to save themand when he refusesMary takes two gunscreeps into the fortand saves the women from certain death. Thusshe sets off a whirlwind of colliding cultures that brings out the worst and best in the cast of unforgettable characters and pushes the love between Farwell and Crow Mary to the breaking point. From “a tremendously gifted storyteller” (Jim Fergusauthor of The Vengeance of Mothers)Crow Mary is a “tendercompellingand profoundly educational and satisfying read” (Sadeqa Johnsonauthor of The Yellow Wife) that sweeps across decadesshowcasing the beauty of the natural worldwhile at the same time probing the intimacies of a marriage and one woman’s heart.