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ONE FOR THE BLACKBIRD, ONE FOR THE CROW
About One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
Hardcover: 496 Pages
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (October 8, 2019)
From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier.
Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn’t think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse.
Losing her husband to Cora’s indiscretion is another hardship for stoic Nettie Mae. But as a brutal Wyoming winter bears down, Cora and Nettie Mae have no choice but to come together as one family—to share the duties of working the land and raising their children. There’s Nettie Mae’s son, Clyde—no longer a boy, but not yet a man—who must navigate the road to adulthood without a father to guide him, and Cora’s daughter, Beulah, who is as wild and untamable as her prairie home.
Bound by the uncommon threads in their lives and the challenges that lie ahead, Cora and Nettie Mae begin to forge an unexpected sisterhood. But when a love blossoms between Clyde and Beulah, bonds are once again tested, and these two resilient women must finally decide whether they can learn to trust each other—or else risk losing everything they hold dear.
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About Olivia Hawker
Through unexpected characters and vivid prose, Olivia Hawker explores the varied landscape of the human spirit. Olivia’s interest in genealogy often informs her writing: her two novels, The Ragged Edge of Night and One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow, are based on true stories found within her own family tree. She lives in the San Juan Islands of Washington State, where she homesteads at Longlight, a one-acre microfarm dedicated to sustainable permaculture practices. For more information, visit www.hawkerbooks.com/olivia.
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Sharon Ann Massa says
I just finished Blackbird. It is difficult to tell you but the one way this book touched me was that I just buried my husband of 58 years 2 weeks ago. I am in such limbo right now I can’t think straight so this may come to you jumbled. The evening after we buried Frank my son was arrested and things have gone downhill from there. BUT, needles to say this book touched me in such a way that I can look at his death after cancer and our long loving relationship as a ‘peace’ that extends itself to me as he becomes all of the things around me that I love so much. Thanks for your excellent writing – I will read more of your works in the future but I felt I must say Thank You for the bit of peace you have allowed to me through this fine work. Gratefully, Sharon Ann Massa