Feminist Book Club
Tue, Dec 17
|Leesburg
Feminism is for everyone! Come investigate feminist themes in fiction, nonfiction, and even story books with your co-hosts, Jess and Tammy.
Time & Location
Dec 17, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Leesburg, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Buy Crow Mary from Bookshop.org
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping and "richly detailed story of a woman caught between two cultures" (Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author) inspired by the real life of Crow Mary--an Indigenous woman in 19th-century North America.
In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past, falls in love with her husband.
The winter trading season passes peacefully. Then, on the eve of their return to Montana, a group…