As their hidden stories and obsessions unfold, and pasts and cultures collide, both Lucy and MacLaren must confront the people they have truly been, are, and may become.Īlive with incident and insight, presenting with rare scope and intimacy the complex relations among nineteenth-century traders, immigrants, and Native Americans, A Sudden Country is, above all, a heroic and unforgettable story of love and loss, sacrifice and understanding. A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher: 9780812973433 : Books. Convinced that he is the key to her family’s safe passage, she persuades her husband to employ him.
Lucy, a remarried widow, careful mother, and reluctant emigrant, is drawn at once to the self-possessed MacLaren. In her first novel, Lopez Island author Karen Fisher adopts an annoying style. But an act of secret vengeance changes his course, introducing him to a different wife and mother: Lucy Mitchell, journeying westward with her family. A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher Random House, 366 pp., 24.95 Stay with this book, and you will be rewarded. In the grip of a profound sorrow, MacLaren, whose home once spanned a continent, sets out to find his wife. A Sudden Country will take you to the frontiers of your heart.
Yet his life is overturned in the winter of 1846, when his Nez Perce wife deserts him and his children die of smallpox. James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudson’s Bay Company trader, has renounced his aspirations for a quiet family life in the Bitterroot wilderness. A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption.
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