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Dalva

This sweeping saga delves into generations of women grappling with identity, family legacy, and the enduring spirit of the American West. Spanning vast landscapes from the prairie to the coast, the narrative weaves tales of love, loss, and resilience against a backdrop of cultural clashes and historical upheaval. It is a profound exploration of healing, self-discovery, and the search for belonging across time.

Dalva
The Road Home

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  1. 1

    Dalva

    • 448 pages
    • 16 hours of reading
    4.2(3506)Add rating

    A beautifully crafted story of one woman's journey to find her son. From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians

    Dalva
  2. 2

    The Road Home

    • 464 pages
    • 17 hours of reading
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    As the Northridge family grapples with the mysterious forces that both pull them apart and draw them back together on the expanses of the Nebraska plains, they learn life's lessons: the deception of passion, the pain of love, the vitality of art, and supplication to nature's generosity and fury.

    The Road Home