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Kensington
April 2018
On Sale: April 18, 2018
Featuring: Harry Muskrat; Stewart Mitchell; Alma Mitchell
316 pages
ISBN: 1496713664
EAN: 9781496713667
Kindle: B074DH9537
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Romance Historical | Women's Fiction Historical
In Amanda Skenandoreβs provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging. On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Almaβs childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harryβor Asku, as Alma knew himβwas the most promising student at the βsavage-tamingβ boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children of neighboring reservations. Instead, it robbed them of everything theyβd knownβlanguage, customs, even their namesβand left a heartbreaking legacy in its wake. The bright, courageous boy Alma knew could never have murdered anyone. But she barely recognizes the man Asku has become, cold and embittered at being an outcast in the white world and a ghost in his own. Her lawyer husband, Stewart, reluctantly agrees to help defend Asku for Almaβs sake. To do so, Alma must revisit the painful secrets she has kept hidden from everyoneβespecially Stewart. Told in compelling narratives that alternate between Almaβs childhood and her present life, Between Earth and Sky is a haunting and complex story of love and loss, as a quest for justice becomes a journey toward understanding and, ultimately, atonement.
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