A THOUSAND MOONS

Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted b y former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educate d and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely f amily unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confro nt, let ...[Read more]