Awarded the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction in 2023. A gripping tale of love and war, depicting the journey of a woman. Summer, 1855. Sarah Brinton leaves Rhode Island, leaving behind an abusive husband and a child, and embarks on a journey westward, until she reaches the Minnesota Territory, on land claimed by both white settlers and Indians. There she finds a new husband, a doctor from Yale, and enters a new life. Sarah's days on the prairie frontier are idyllic but challenging, as she connects and works with the Sioux women. However, tensions escalate as the Sioux grow suspicious of the white settlers and feel the loss of their land. When the Sioux decide to take their fate into their own hands, Sarah's loyalties are divided between the Sioux and her white neighbors. In this conflict, she loses her sense of identity. This is the first novel in ten years by the author of the books In the Cut and Miss Aluminium, a story of freedom and oppression, intimacy and violence, and a woman at the center of one of the most significant and shameful moments in American history.