Review: Moore’s new novel, “The Lost Wife,” draws on the true story of a 19th-century woman caught amid the tensions between White settlers and Indigenous tribes
Sarah Brinton narrates her story, bit by bit, in a spare, lyrical tone. Gradually, she divulges bitter memories of her neglectful mother and the infant child she left behind when she escaped from her predator husband in 1855, out of fear that he would kill her. This is the emotionally complex baggage of a woman who, in hopes of erasing all traces of her past, renames herself Sarah Browne and sets off for Native American territory.
the time Sarah reaches Shakopee, Minn., where she plans to meet Maddie, she reeks from having been unable to bathe since her journey began. But there is no Maddie. She has died of cholera. So much for Sarah’s American Dream of freedom and new beginnings.Forced to improvise, Sarah surveys the narrow possibilities before her as a self-described stout, unattached woman in her mid-20s in need of making a living in a riverbank trading town whose citizens are as coarse as they are prudish.
The White and the Native people live alongside each other, she reflects, but in two increasingly unreconcilable and unequal worlds, with the U.S. government herding the tribes into ever-smaller reservations and limiting rations to starvation levels, while Sarah and her White neighbors live in comfort.
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