Margaret Verble, an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, grounds her fiction in the landscape of her family’s Indian allotment land. Her prose delves into themes of Indigenous identity and history, exploring the enduring connections to ancestral lands. Verble approaches her writing with a profound understanding of cultural heritage and its impact on contemporary life.
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line , an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center.