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| Queensland, 1880s (via State Library of Queensland) |
So you got a taste of Earth's Imagined Corners and you're thinking, hey, I don't want to let these people go! So here's what's coming next for Sara and James Youngblood.
The Round Earth Series
Book 1 – Earth’s Imagined Corners
In 1885 Iowa, Sara Moore is a dutiful daughter, but when her
father tries to force her to marry his younger partner, she must choose between
the partner—a man who treats her like property—and James Youngblood—a kind man
she hardly knows who has a troubled past. When she confronts her father, he
beats her and turns her out of the house, breaking all ties, so she decides to
elope with James to Kansas City with hardly a penny to their names. In the
tradition of Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes
Were Watching God, Earth’s Imagined Corners is a novel that comprehends the
great kindnesses and violences we do to each other.
Book 2 – Numberless Infinities
Coming in January 2016
In 1890 Kansas City, Sara and James Youngblood have built a
life for themselves, but then James’s yearning for the West gets the better of
him. He accepts a contract to supply ties for the burgeoning railroad, and off
they go across Nebraska and the Dakotas. Life on the road is hard, and Sara
cooks for the crew, but then she discovers she’s pregnant—she lost a baby
before and almost died. The crooked railroad boss refuses to pay, and James’s
crew revolts, and so they are stranded on Indian lands with the rising tide of
the Ghost Dance religion. Numberless Infinities may remind you of Jane
Kirkpatrick’s All Together in One Place and Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man.
Book 3 – This Lowly Ground
Coming in January 2017
In 1894, Sara and James Youngblood are exhausted by life on
the wagon road, and so when their son Jake has his hand taken off in a gun
accident, they decide to homestead in northern Wyoming. James teams with a
local rancher to build an irrigation system, and soon a town grows up—one that
all agree should be called Youngblood. Years pass. A straggling band of Mormons
pushing handcarts from Salt Lake City show up in the middle of a snow storm,
and the town pulls together to help them settle. Soon, though, conflicts erupt
in the running of the town, and when the town’s livelihood, a brick and tile
factory, mysteriously burns down, Sara and James’s son Jake is blamed. This
Lowly Ground is in the tradition of Willa Cather and Carson McCullers.
Tomorrow, I'll talk a little about what's next for me.
Tomorrow, I'll talk a little about what's next for me.
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