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Book Review of The High Divide: A Novel

The High Divide: A Novel
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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.