Charity

Description

The friendship between Lena Kaiser| a sodbuster’s daughter| and Gustie Roemer| an educated Easterner| is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity| South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider| and Lena is too proud to share her problems (which include a hard-drinking husband) with anyone else. On the nearby Sioux reservation| Gustie also finds love and family with two Dakotah women: Dorcas Many Roads| an old medicine woman| and her adopted granddaughter| Jordis| who bears the scars of the white man’s education. When Lena’s husband is arrested for murdering his father and the secrets of Gustie’s past follow her to Charity| Lena| Gustie| and Jordis stand together. As buried horrors are unearthed and present tragedies unfold| they discover the strength and beauty of love and friendship that blossom like wild flowers in the tough prairie soil.”