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Book Group

Cherokee America

2024-11-19 18:30:00 2024-11-19 19:30:00 America/Chicago Book Group Join us to discuss the 2020 book "Cherokee America" by Margaret Verble. Belt Branch - CreateSpace

Tuesday, November 19
6:30pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-11-19 18:30:00 2024-11-19 19:30:00 America/Chicago Book Group Join us to discuss the 2020 book "Cherokee America" by Margaret Verble. Belt Branch - CreateSpace

Belt Branch

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Join us to discuss the 2020 book "Cherokee America" by Margaret Verble.

About this month's title:

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center.

Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award (Best Western Traditional Novel)

It's the early spring of 1875 in the Cherokee Nation West. A baby, a black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, a gold stash, and a preacher have all gone missing. Cherokee America Singer, known as "Check," a wealthy farmer, mother of five boys, and soon-to-be widow, is not amused.

In this epic of the American frontier, several plots intertwine around the heroic and resolute Check: her son is caught in a compromising position that results in murder; a neighbor disappears; another man is killed. The tension mounts and the violence escalates as Check's mixed race family, friends, and neighbors come together to protect their community--and painfully expel one of their own.

Cherokee America vividly, and often with humor, explores the bonds--of blood and place, of buried histories and half-told tales, of past grief and present injury--that connect a colorful, eclectic cast of characters, anchored by the clever, determined, and unforgettable Check.

A limited number of physical copies of the selected title are available in advance at the Belt Branch for check out.

This program is for adults 18+. 

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Talks |

Belt Branch

kmorris@rhcl.org
Phone: 816-232-5479
Branch manager
Kelly Morris

Hours
Mon, Dec 09 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Dec 10 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Dec 11 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Dec 12 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Dec 13 9:00AM to 8:00PM
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Sun, Dec 15 12:00PM to 6:00PM

About the branch

Belt Branch was expanded and renovated in 2006 and occupies a unique space in a commercial strip-mall building on the busiest thoroughfare in town.  It is open 7 days a week and offers over 30 programs per month. You can also schedule a one-on-one technology appointment or apply to get a passport.

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