Helpful Score: 1
I enjoyed the multi-issues to this book: hope, opportunity, love, obligation, hardship, conflict, danger, heartbreak. Rachel DuPree tells a believable story about the hard-scrabble life in the Badlands after the white man removed the Indians. And to tell the story from a black woman's perspective truly added dimension.
This story has its tragedies for sure as it takes place on the frontier, in the Badlands, but the stars of the show are a black family from Chicago and what they faced not only as pioneers, but as black pioneers. Ironic also, to experience the prejudice blacks showed to the Indians. Loved the character of Dixie herself, her brutal self-assessment and realizations.
This author is amazing. Her characters are real and her descriptions are vivid. I felt as though I was there. Settling the West was not for the faint of heart.
it was ok. liked her first book better
