Inside the Silver Light [Paperback]

Leah Martin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2004

Nature has gone mad in the Badlands of South Dakota, a landscape of the forbidden where nature’s big and strong have not triumphed, but rather the small and weak. A hidden murder on the Pine Ridge Reservation brings three women into a tangle of revenge, broken love, death, and redemption.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A superbly crafted novel . . .with startling insightful strands of Native American spirituality, culture and the unique environment of the rez. -- Bob Spear, Heartland Reviews, Winter, 2005

Makes for compelling reading. -- Alan Caruba, Bookviews, April, 2004.

From the Publisher

Inside the Silver Light will particularly interest fans of contemporary Western and quality women’s fiction. It offers an insightful look at the unrest and conflict that remained buried among the Lakota people on the Pine Ridge Reservation after the suppression of the American Indian Movement at Wounded Knee in the 1970’s. A ten-year-old boy whose parents were killed during this time has come of age. This man brings Native Americans, cowboys, Jesuits, mission teachers, and other people on the reservation together in tragic and mysterious ways. The imaginative, fast-moving plot revolves around the three women on the reservation. Winnie, the Lakota wife of a white rancher, and mission teachers Kate and Mara are caught in a triangle of revenge, redemption and love. The unusual landform, the Badlands, serves as a metaphor for the turbulence found in the novel.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 265 pages
• Publisher: Storywright Books (March 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974146218
• ISBN-13: 978-0974146218
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,499,674 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)