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Book, 2009
Current format, Book, 2009, 1st ed, All copies in use.
Book, 2009
Current format, Book, 2009, 1st ed, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formats
This is "a story about love: hard-to-find, hard-to-get, hard-to-keep love." The narrator is 91-year-old Hattie B. Brown, who, along with her 105-year-old mother, relates the saga of a family that begins with Val Strong, a Native American cattle driver, and Irene, the African American woman he comes to love. Between them they build a life in Wideland, Oklahoma, with a house and some land. Their daughters, Rose and Tante, want different lives. Tante gets her PhD and moves to Paris, while Rose stays in the home she grew up in, continuing to teach poor children. Another family story, that of Herman Tenderman, emerges parallel to this one. It is when the two stories, or families, come together that the "hard" love story begins and winds its agonizing way to happiness.
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