Rush of Shadows
by Catherine Bell
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Pub Date Oct 15 2014 | Archive Date Jul 20 2014
Washington Writers' Publishing House | JKSCommunications
Description
Rush of Shadows evokes the clash between natives and settlers in 19th century California through the unlikely friendship of two women, Mellie, a white, and Bahé, an Indian. As settlers fence the land and drive off game, Indians are starved, enslaved, and even shot for fun. Yet Bahé helps Mellie safely through childbirth, and Mellie's warning saves an Indian village from a massacre perpetrated by her white neighbors. Even after Bahé is driven to seek safety in prostitution, the women manage to feed, doctor, and teach each other. Tough-minded and lyrical, Rush of Shadows brings to life the human dimensions of a tragic conflict which corrupted the winners and left the losers to haunt the landscape as shadows.
Advance Praise
"With
this first novel, Catherine Bell takes her place among the vanguard
of writers reconstructing an American paradigm that is truer,
grittier, sadder, and ultimately more satisfying than the myths we've
crafted to expunge our history's unsavory passages. The story's
unsentimental denouement is uplifting in its honesty. Along the
way, Bell makes us think long and hard about how this nation was
built and at what moral cost. A good, deep read, by a steely
White woman unafraid to be fair to all parties. Mvto!"
- Dr.
Darnella Davis, Native American artist (Creek), PhD in Indian
education policy.
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781941551028 |
| PRICE | $0.00 (USD) |
