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A vivid and revelatory novel predicated on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of amazing complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption.
James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudson’s Bay Company trader, has renounced his aspirations for a quiet family life in the Bitterroot wilderness. Yet his life is overturned in the winter of 1846, when his Nez Perce wife deserts him and his children die of smallpox. Within the grip of your profound sorrow, MacLaren, whose home once spanned a continent, sets out to find his wife. But an act of secret vengeance changes his course, introducing him to a new wife and mother: Lucy Mitchell, journeying westward with her family.
Lucy, a remarried widow, careful mother, and reluctant emigrant, is drawn simultaneously to the self-possessed MacLaren. Convinced that he's the key to her family’s safe passage, she persuades her husband to hire him. As their hidden stories and obsessions unfold, and pasts and cultures collide, both Lucy and MacLaren must confront the people they have truly been, are, and may become.
Alive with incident and insight, presenting with rare scope and intimacy the complex relations among nineteenth-century traders, immigrants, and Native Americans, AN ABRUPT Country is, most importantly, a heroic and unforgettable story of love and loss, sacrifice and understanding.
