Indigo Field

This is a heckuva novel–sprawling, engrossing, exciting, moving. It's a story of life, death, and redemption, in which past conflicts–sometimes distant past–resurface with uncertain outcomes. I think only someone like this author who has come to know the territory and the people about which she writes could have pulled this off. In the process of telling us a story about a gruff old retired Army colonel who is unhappy about his current situation, the author also lets the reader discover an incredibly complex history of the region and its inhabitants, the descendants of native and enslaved people. And then the winds of change come and stir everything up.