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Drawn partly from a true story, The Lost Wife is a searing and immersive novel about a devastating Native American revolt, and a woman caught in the middle of the conflict
Winner of the 2023 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction
'A breathtaking tale of love and war'
Telegraph
'Moore's voice is cool and sure, rich with detail'
Vogue
'A riveting account of one woman's journey'
Guardian
Summer, 1855. Sarah Brinton sets out from Rhode Island, leaving an abusive husband and child behind to head west across the country, until her journey ends in Minnesota Territory, on lands claimed both by white settlers and Native Americans. There she finds herself another husband, a Yale-educated doctor who works on the nearby Sioux reservation, and settles into a new life.
Sarah's days on the edge of the prairie are idyllic if tough, as she befriends and works with the Sioux women. But trouble is brewing. The Sioux tribes are wary of the white settlers and resent the rampant theft of their land.
When the Sioux take their fate into their own hands, Sarah's loyalties are split between the Sioux and her fellow white settlers. As the conflict rages, she finds herself lost to both worlds.
The first novel in ten years from the author of In the Cut and Miss Aluminium, this is a story about freedom and oppression, intimacy and violence, and a woman caught in the crossfire of one of the most seminal and shameful moments in American history.
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Praise for The Lost Wife
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Moore returns with a bracing and daring account of a woman who tries to build a new life on the American frontier . . . This is a masterwork - Publishers Weekly
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A breathtaking tale of love and war on the 19th-century American frontier . . . A captivating period piece that brings life on the frontier into vivid, often brutal focus through the prism of female experience - Telegraph
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A compelling tale of survival, loyalty and exploitation - The Bookseller
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Her writing is so precise and perceptive, so disturbing, frightening and erotic all at once . . . this profoundly clever woman with her life in her hands
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Moore captures the lost wives and lost souls whose illusions had carried them to a vaunted frontier whose promise had become saturated in blood - Washington Post
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This impressively taut and evocative novel brings life on the frontier into vivid, often brutal focus through the prism of female experience - Telegraph
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- Esquire
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A masterwork of historical fiction, beautiful and stark as an American prairie
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I find Moore to be one of the most compelling novelists alive. The Lost Wife is concise and brutally incisive. As ever, Susanna Moore is unflinching
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A masterwork of historical fiction, beautiful and stark as an American prairie - Esquire
Susanna Moore
Susanna Moore is the author of the novels The Life of Objects, The Big Girls, One Last Look, In the Cut, Sleeping Beauties, The Whiteness of Bones, and My Old Sweetheart, and two books of nonfiction, Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai'i and I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i. She lives in New York City.
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