A man seeking redemption. Boys coming of age. A woman wrestling with trust in marriage. Vanishing buffalo, paralleling the even more tragic vanishing A man seeking redemption. Boys coming of age. A woman wrestling with trust in marriage. Vanishing buffalo, paralleling the even more tragic vanishing of a people.
All of these things are explored and come to a head in The High Divide.
This reads like a western, a family drama western. It is beautiful and stark.
Lin Enger's brother Leif wrote one of my all-time favorite books, Peace Like A River. Boy do these brothers have a gift for storytelling. While I didn't love this book quite as much as Peace Like A River, I was equally stirred by this tale; the themes it explored were complex and gripping. This is a book to sit with and ponder. ...more
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