I started a new book today called, “The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo”, by Kent Nerburn. It wasn’t what I was expecting, but wow, I’m so engrossed in this book!
It’s written in first person and the author writes about a Lakota friend of his, who is getting older and will probably be “walking his last journey” before long. He tells the author that he and his sister were taken from their family and sent to an Indian school, His sister disappeared from the school and he wants the author to help him find out what happened to her. He suggests talking to a woman named Mary, who was also taken to the school as a young girl. He calls Mary a few times and she tells him she ‘knows something’, so he makes plans to drive out to see her, only to find that she died before he arrived. Her daughter gives him a journal that Mary wrote, which sends him on a very arduous journey into the Native American culture. He meets many people who all have bits and pieces of the story of the little girl, and he has to put all of the pieces together.
I haven’t gotten to the place that tells what happened to the girl yet, but OMG, I can’t put this book down! His descriptive phrases are incredible in both phrasing and detail; my mind’s eye can actually see what his words are describing.
He’s written a number of books, and when this one is finished, I’m getting another one! He could very well turn out to be one of my favorite authors!
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