Strong characters making hard, sometimes incomprehensible choices, set this novel apart from the run-of-the-mill "Western". When Ulysses Pope walks away from his Minnesota home early one morning in 1886, he leaves behind a wife and two sons, worried at first, then apprehensive, then angry at what seems be a pointless desertion. As the story unfolds, all four main characters face challenges they had never expected.
This novel was part western and part romance. Not my usual type of book, but it was a good story.
Ulysses Pope (Popovich) marries Gretta and they have two sons, Eli & Danny. Danny is pretty frail and consistently needs his mother's caring.
Ulysses leaves one day and does not come back. He is search of something from his past that he has not shared with his family. His two sons venture on their own to find him and they are really young. Gretta then takes off to find him and comes to an errant conclusion about him.
There is much description in the book and it makes you want to envision everything that they are seeing.
Ulysses Pope (Popovich) marries Gretta and they have two sons, Eli & Danny. Danny is pretty frail and consistently needs his mother's caring.
Ulysses leaves one day and does not come back. He is search of something from his past that he has not shared with his family. His two sons venture on their own to find him and they are really young. Gretta then takes off to find him and comes to an errant conclusion about him.
There is much description in the book and it makes you want to envision everything that they are seeing.
