The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a
multigenerational family saga set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sand
Hills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee--an
ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal,
family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters
shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land.Ten
years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred
Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a
white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are
murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.'s land. The deaths bring
together the scattered members of the Bennett family: J.B.'s
cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and
his teenage sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin
deaths unfolds, the history of the dysfunctional Bennetts and their
damning secrets is revealed, exposing the conflicted heart of a
nation caught between past and future.At the center of The Bones of
Paradise are two remarkable women. Dulcinea, returned after bitter
years of self-exile, yearns for redemption and the courage to mend
her broken family and reclaim the land that is rightfully hers.
Rose, scarred by the terrible slaughters that have decimated and
dislocated her people, struggles to accept the death of her sister,
Star, and refuses to rest until she is avenged.A kaleidoscopic
portrait of misfits, schemers, chancers, and dreamers, Jonis Agee's
bold novel is a panorama of America at the dawn of a new century. A
beautiful evocation of this magnificent, blood-soaked land--its
sweeping prairies, seas of golden grass, and sandy hills, all at
the mercy of two unpredictable and terrifying forces, weather and
lawlessness--and the durable men and women who dared to tame it.
Intimate and epic, The Bones of Paradise is a remarkable
achievement: a mystery, a tragedy, a romance, and an unflagging
exploration of the beauty and brutality, tenderness and cruelty
that defined the settling of the American West.
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