This novel will grab you from the first page – four sisters captured, one left behind to search for them. In a time when women were generally controlled by the men in their lives we find Susanna Quiner — ready to fight and scheme for the lives of her sisters and determined to learn how. You will root for Susanna as she makes her way through the Great Black Swamp! Wonderful read!!
2014 North American Book Award Winner for Best Historical Novel
On a humid day in June 1806, on the edge of Ohio's Great Black Swamp, seventeen-year-old Susanna Quiner watches from behind a maple tree as a band of Potawatomi Indians kidnaps her four older sisters from their cabin. With both her parents dead and all the other settlers out in their fields, Susanna makes the rash decision to pursue them herself. What follows is a young woman's quest to find her sisters, and the parallel story of her sisters' new lives.
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One sister is left for dead and two others are traded to a band of Wyandots for the price of a horse. Meanwhile Susanna spends the next five months searching for them. The man who loves her, Seth Spendlove, is also in pursuit after he realizes that his family was involved in the kidnapping. Part Potawatomi himself, Seth unwittingly sets off on his own quest to reclaim his heritage. He allies himself with a Potawatomi named Koman, and together they canoe through the Great Black Swamp and into enemy territory looking for Susanna.
Surviving snake bite, near-starvation, and captivity, Susanna transforms herself from the perennial younger sister to a capable young woman determined to find her family. Thieving Forest is a riveting novel that demonstrates the true wildness of the wilderness, and the rugged perseverance of those who find themselves there.
Thieving Forest Info
- Language: English ( Download PDF :
) - ISBN-10: 0991618521
- ISBN-13: 978-0991618521
- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Noontime Books (August 15, 2014)
- Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
- Author: Martha Conway
About the Author
Martha Conway's first novel, 12 BLISS STREET, was nominated for an Edgar Award, and her short fiction has been published in The Iowa Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, Folio, Epoch, and other journals. She has taught creative writing at UC Berkeley Extension and Stanford University's Online Writer's Studio, and is a recipient of a California Arts Council Fellowship for Creative Writing. Born and raised in northern Ohio, Martha is one of seven sisters. She now makes her home in San Francisco.
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