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Maud's line

"Eastern Oklahoma, 1928. Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail lives with her rogue father and sensitive brother on one of the allotments parceled out by the U.S. government to the Cherokees when their land was confiscated for Oklahoma's statehood. Maud's days are filled with hard work and simp...

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Main Author: Verble, Margaret (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
Subjects:
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Allotment of land > Government policy > Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma > Fiction.
Oklahoma > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Historical fiction > Oklahoma.
Domestic fiction > Oklahoma.
Summary: "Eastern Oklahoma, 1928. Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail lives with her rogue father and sensitive brother on one of the allotments parceled out by the U.S. government to the Cherokees when their land was confiscated for Oklahoma's statehood. Maud's days are filled with hard work and simple pleasures, but often marked by violence and tragedy, a fact that she accepts with determined practicality. Her prospects for a better life are slim, but when a newcomer with good looks and books rides down her section line, she takes notice"--Dust jacket flap.
Item Description: "A novel"--Jacket.
Physical Description: 294 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780544470194 (hbk.)
0544470192 (hbk.)
Author Notes: MARGARET VERBLE is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Her first novel, Maud's Line, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her second novel, Cherokee America, has recently been listed by the New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year for 2019. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

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