I thought they were real and sympathetic. What follows is a gripping and often very moving story about love and family and loyalty.
The Jade Harrington Series: Books 1 - 3: (With Bonus Short Story: Few Are Chosen)
Books In This Series (3 Books) The two boys set out from their home in western Minnesota for the West in search of their father, and eventually the mother does so as well. The Divide: A Jade Harrington Novel (The Jade Harrington Series Book 3) Multiple unanswered questions and surprises.
The politics , the people involved, good read. Meanwhile, we learn of the father's pilgrimage to come to terms with his soldier past. Cliff hanger. The boys can't stand waiting and hop a train, looking for their dad, and eventually Gretta, the left-behind wife, follows as well.
Yes, there were still things for us to learn, but they weren't very interesting and I didn't care enough about the characters to really worry if they were going to be happy in the end. Experiencing the twists, turns, and revelations was exhilarating.
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Written with lean, crisp prose, Enger seamlessly blends historical events with the personal, and deftly pulls the reader into America’s Great Plains during the 19th Century. It was a quiet book, with writing similar to Robert Morgan, full of heart and home.Enjoyed this western story of family relations and a quest to put to rest the demons of post-traumatic stress. In the course of the story, all fouThis novel by Lin Enger, brother of Leif Enger, the author of the wonderful Peace Like a River, is reminiscent of that one. Excellent must read book!! lives with her family in Seattle, Washington, where she is hard at work on her fourth novel.You can find her on: Twitter @jl_brownauthor and jlbrownauthor.com. But then some of the bad kicked in. This book has its good points and a few not so good ones.
The conservationist William Hornaday and his 1886 mission to hunt what he believes are the last surviving buffalo play an important supporting role in the story. Flashbacks regarding Custer and his atrocities against the Indians and William Barnaby, from the Smithsonian who wants to kill and stuff as many buffaloes as he can before they disappear completely. "The High Divide" is the story of a man with a past, a past that he is embarrassed to share with his wife and sons, a past that haunts him so continuously and so badly that he is compelled to find a way to make things right - or die trying. There's something compelling about this story. What kindWhen Greta and her teo sons woke up the next morning he was gone. It is nevertheless a work of fiction and one for the reader to become immersed in. Something went wrong. It's a fairly interesting subject and a great setting. In The High Divide, much of this is backdrop. Crossing The Divide summary: Crossing The Divide summary is updating. This would have been okay had it been a slow burn type of book, but there was pretty much no climax, at least not an exciting one, so it kinda felt like a slow burn, almost a boil, and then someone turned the burner off and it never actually boiled. I loved it. I thought they were real and sympathetic. In The High Divide, much of this is backdrop. You don't abandon your family for months to right a wrong. Memorable characters and a compelling storyline, with many of the eternal American themes of conquest and adventure, plus the battle with the Native Americans and the destruction of the buffalo herds, it’s a convincing and thoroughly enjoyable novel. I loved this story and its characters. Just finished third book in the Jade Harrington series. So from the beginning I was more than a little angry at Ulysses. So up until now, Peace Like a River by Leif Enger has been one of my favorite books, but now his brother Lin comes across with this one that is right up there next to it. Please try again. With no one really knowing where Ulysses went or why, it's pretty amazing that they all head in the same direction, but they do. I struggled through the first half before deciding that whatever the deep dark secrets were, was not worth my time and effort.I enjoyed this book from start to finish. The boys, especially, deserve more page time. His stories have been published in literary journals such as Glimmer Train, Ascent, and American Fiction. This just didn't seem like the end. I figured out most things along the way,but never once did I think it would end like it did....! I didn't find the wife very sympathetic (despite her bad lot) and didn't care much for the husband. "Jade Harrington is a kickass heroine."