Crow Mary by Kathleen Grissom is the next book that our Antemeridians book club will be reading. They will discuss it on Thursday, August 15 at 10:30am in the Library's Multipurpose Room. We have copies of the book available in regular print, large print, audiobook, and Playaway. Stop at the upstairs desk to check out your copy today!
Here's a summary of Crow Mary: In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native Woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Metis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season passes peacefully. Then, on the eve of their return to Montana, a group of drunken whisky traders slaughters forty Nakota - despite Farwell's efforts to stop them. Mary, hiding from the hail of bullets, sees the murderers, including Stiller, take five Nakota women back to their fort. She begs Farwell to save them, and when he refuses, Mary takes two guns, creeps into the fort, and saves the women from certain death. Thus, She 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.
Kathleen Grissom has also written two other historical fiction books called The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything.
