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07.08: Anna Keesey
2013-06-13 20:39:34| Powells Books Events Calendar
In the tradition of such Western classics as My Antonia and There Will Be Blood, Anna Keesey's Little Century (Picador) is a resonant and moving debut novel. Orphaned after the death of her mother, 18-year-old Esther Chambers heads west in search of her only living relative. In the lawless town of Century, Oregon, she's met by her distant cousin — a cattle rancher named Ferris Pickett. There, she begins a new life as a homesteader, but Century is in the midst of an escalating and violent war over water and rangeland. As incidents between the sheep and cattle ranchers turn to bloodshed, Esther's sympathies are divided between her cousin and a sheepherder named Ben Cruff, sworn enemy of the cattlemen. Torn between her growing passion for Ben and her love of the austere land, she begins to realize that she can't be loyal to both.
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