RaveThe Star Tribune...a novel as sparse, powerful, majestic and unsettling as the late 1800s frontier that serves as its setting ... Coplin\'s prose is fresh and compelling, bringing Talmadge and the other characters to vivid life. The most memorable include Clee, who stopped talking the day his Indian village was raided and his mother kidnapped from their teepee, and midwife Caroline Middey, who cured a young Talmadge of venereal disease ... While the ending of this striking debut may not make every reader happy, it is, undoubtedly, the right one for both the book and for Talmadge, an unlikely hero who -- like the book -- is true to life and sweetly honest from beginning to end.
Geraldine Brooks
PositiveMinneapolis Star TribuneThe Bible's Book of Samuel says that when David played the harp, those around him would forget their troubles and feel happiness. Brooks has written a book to do the same.
