Useful Girl by Marcus Stevens SIGNED First Edition 1st Print Hardcover Book DJ
Title: Useful Girl
Author: Marcus Stevens
Year: 2004
ISBN-13: 9781565123663
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover / Hardback
Collectible -- First Edition, 1st Printing; Signed / Autographed by Author
Condition: SIGNED by Author. First Edition / 1st Printing. Excellent condition with minor wear. No markings to text. NO remainder mark. DJ is like new with slight wear. DJ is NOT price clipped. SHIPS IN A BOX! Packaged with Care.
Genre: Historical / Literary Fiction
Summary:
Out on the western plains, two paths cross: those of a young woman
running away from home and a Cheyenne girl running for her life.
They're both on a heroic quest, though more than a hundred years
separate their journeys.
After her mother's sudden death, Erin
Douglass is virtually alone in the world. When she witnesses the
exhumation of a Cheyenne girl along the side of a dirt road, life in her
Montana town indelibly changes. The girl's remains, gently wrapped in a
faded army coat, with silver thimbles on her right hand, are more than a
hundred years old. Though her father makes every attempt to keep the
discovery quiet, Erin is haunted by questions: How did this young girl
end up here, in the middle of nowhere, with no marker and all alone? Who
was she?
Together with Charlie White Bird, a young member of
her father's road crew from the nearby reservation, Erin is determined
to protect her burial ground. She and Charlie meet in secret, knowing
that their encounters could threaten their divided communities. But as
their commitment to their cause becomes more passionate, so, too, does
their relationship. When Erin is faced with a crisis she feels she must
bear alone, she runs away. With her mother's old suitcase and her
granddad's journals on the Indian wars, she sets out, and as she moves
farther from home, the Cheyenne girl's story vividly unfolds in her
mind, guiding her toward another way out of her predicament.
Sweeping and evocative, Useful Girl
reminds us that the past, no matter how deeply buried, is never far
from view. It is a testament to the power of the imagination and a novel
of heartrending beauty.