The Lost Wife
Author: Susanna Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'A clear-eyed and riveting account of one woman's journey into a so-called land of opportunity' Guardian Summer, 1855. Sarah Brinton sets out from Rhode Island, leaving an abusive husband and child behind to head west across the country, until her journey ends in Minnesota Territory, on lands claimed both by white settlers and Native Americans. There she finds herself another husband, a Yale-educated doctor who works on the nearby Sioux reservation,...
The Lost Wife