Alive with incident and insight, presenting with rare scope and intimacy the complex relations among nineteenth-century traders, immigrants, and Native Americans,A Sudden Countryis, above all, a heroic and unforgettable story of love and loss, sacrifice and understanding. 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. Convinced that he is the key to her familys 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. : A Sudden Country: A Novel (9781400063222) by Fisher, Karen and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. But an act of secret vengeance changes his course, introducing him to a different wife and mother: Lucy Mitchell, journeying westward with her family. In the grip of a profound sorrow, MacLaren, whose home once spanned a continent, sets out to find his wife. Yet his life is overturned in the winter of 1846, when his Nez Perce wife deserts him and his children die of smallpox. 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. Fishers use of figurative language to describe the pioneers trek west puts you there with them. First, the writing is absolutely spectacular.

James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudsons Bay Company trader, has renounced his aspirations for a quiet family life in the Bitterroot wilderness. How customer reviews and ratings work See All Buying Options. A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country. A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration,A Sudden Countryfollows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption. Sudden Country by Karen Fisher available in Trade Paperback on, also read synopsis and reviews.

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