The Circle Leads Home

By Mary Anderson Parks

Mary Anderson Parks' debut novel, The Circle Leads Home, tells the story of Katherine, a 32-year-old American Indian whose husband died from a drug overdose two years earlier. Now she finds herself... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870814885
• ISBN13: 9780870814884
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

The Circle Leads Home

A wonderfully distressful novel! Mary takes you to many complex levels that are part of the experience of being human. This book will not only force you to look at the complex prejudice and discrimination issues in our culture, but will expose parts of your own heart you may not want to see. The characters become vivid and alive and you will miss them for days after the last page has been turned. Kudos! to Mary Anderson Parks. Please don't make us wait to long for your next book. Yes, please do write a sequel and let us know about Sky and Katherine.

A deeply realistic portrait of a Native American women.

Mary Parks has created a character who is believable and real. She makes choices by intuition to preserve her family and herself by returning to her home on the reservation. After making the choice to be there, she makes the best of her difficult relationship with her mother and the man she gets too involved with. This character stayed with me for days as I read her search for herself and her ability to make wrong choice yet not be devastated by these mistakes. I liked her courage and her inner solidity as she makes her way into a new life. The themes of interracial marriage and raising children in a sometimes hostile world are intriguing and touch us as the sturggles of many women in the 90s.