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.
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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Cherokee America
