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A bred-in-the-bones storyteller.-Geraldine Brooks Canaan fills a massive canvas. Its points of reference are Richmond in the throes of Reconstruction; the trading floors of Wall Street, where men makes fortunes speculating on the wars consequences; a Virginia plantation, where in fact the ruin of the South is written in wrenching detail; and the fantastic Plains, where in fact the splendidly arrogant George Custer rides to his fate against Sitting Bulls warriors. This is the story of America over two decades of its most turbulent history. The characters are black, white, red, ex-Union, and ex-Confederate; and the principal narrator is a Santee woman, She Goes Before, who marries an ex-slave. Through her eyes we witness the hanging of her father by whites in the mass execution of 1863, Red Clouds banquet with President Grant, and that final confrontation on the bluffs above the tiny Bighorn. McCaigs comprehensive research is revealed in the books rich historical detail and revisionist perspective. Black life in Reconstruction-era Virginia is portrayed particularly well.-Library Journal
