The latest book I finished reading is One Thousand White Women which I received from Reading Group Gold.
The word I would use to describe this book is Bold. It's written Journal-style by an imaginary woman in the 1800's named May Dodd who was institutionalized against her will by her ex-husband. Her only chance for a new life is to join a government program that grants 1000 white women to the Native Americans of the West. May befriends a variety of different women along the train ride and they all settle in the camp together with their new spouses. It's not all happy and it's not all easy, that's why I labeled this book as Bold, it explores the idea of these women becoming sight unseen brides and the new life they have to adjust to among people so different from them.
It's incredible how the author was able to so vividly imagine this story and it is told with realistic first person accounts.It's not a short read (434 pages) and it can be racy for those who were expecting something more old fashioned because of the era it's set in.But it's worth the time to seek it out online or at the library.
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