I discover a place I already knew
Jan 08, 2020
3 minutes
It was my first time enjoying the book with my youngest child, but I’d done so more than once with each of my older two. I knew the novel well: its slow build; its complex, painful evocation of the 18th-century encounter between struggling European pioneers and indigenous Americans resisting their communal destruction with dignity, rage, despair. This fresh reading promised much, but I expected no surprises.
Then, halfway through the book, I came to this passage:
Just as the last light
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