Thirteen Moons

Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier

My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
I love Charles Frazier. I enjoyed this book much more than Cold Mountain (maybe because the story was "fresh" because there isn't a movie). The story was funny, heart-wrenching and just plain good.

Pub. Date: October 2006

Synopsis: At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins – for a brief moment – a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Will’s destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians – including a Cherokee Chief named Bear – he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee’s homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that “only desire trumps time.”


Recommended Reading:
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
Three Junes by Julia Glass
Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles

Received: January 2008 Kept