Maud's Line

By Margaret Verble

Book Overview

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, this debut novel chronicles the life and loves of a headstrong, earthy, and magnetic heroine.

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 US 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. Soon she finds herself facing a series of high-stakes decisions that will determine her future and those of her loved ones.

Maud's Line is accessible, sensuous, and vivid. It will sit on the bookshelf alongside novels by Jim Harrison, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, and other beloved chroniclers of the American West and its people.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544705246
• ISBN13: 9780544705241
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful story about demoralized Native Americans in Oklahoma during the early twentieth century. It is predominately the story of Maud, a young mixed blood Cherokee woman, who dreams of attaining more than the marginal living that she has with her brother and father. Very fascinating to read a vivid account of that period of America and what the Native Americans had to overcome.