Dakota, Or What's a Heaven For

What to make of an old-fashioned telling of a thoroughly modern story? Brenda Marshall's Dakota may put off some impatient readers by following certain literary conventions of the time about which she is writing (the 1870s)—chapter headings describe what will happen in that chapter, for example, and rich exposition helps complete the portrait of the people and landscape of the Dakota Territory—but persistence will be rewarded. This novel tells a surprising and a compelling story that you haven't heard before, and it's filled with extraordinarily complex and memorable characters.

See the complete review at Perpetual Folly: Review of Dakota