Displaying 1 of 1 2023 Title: The lost wife : a novel / Susanna Moore. Author: Moore, Susanna, author. Format: Book Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. Description: 171 pages ; 22 cm Summary: "Minnesota, 1862: As a woman fleeing from a dark and secret past, Sarah Wakefield leaves Rhode Island quietly and quickly under cover of night for the long journey to Minnesota where she has been advised there is good work to be had. She soon finds a husband who becomes a resident physician for a Sioux town there but the political backdrop of that moment is volatile: white settlers are breaking treaties, Native American land is shrinking, and mass starvation and disease looms over the Sioux community. As the earliest settlers in this area, Sarah anticipates unease and tension, but instead she finds acceptance and kinship. Through the caring Sioux women, Sarah learns to cook, make clothes, speak the Sioux language, and ultimately finds companionship with the women which far exceeds that with her strange and distant husband. But the Sioux aren't receiving what they were promised from the White settlers, and a succession of devastating treaty breaks result in widespread famine, territory loss and conflict. What follows is one of the most influential Native uprisings of all time, the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. As the war erupts around her, Sarah is separated from her husband, and rescued by the Sioux who are seeking safety from the fighting, and ultimately a home that was stolen from them. She will heroically but unsuccessfully try to protect them during the Dakota Trial that ensues."-- Provided by publisher. Subjects: Wakefield, Sarah F. -- Fiction. Women pioneers -- Minnesota -- Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota -- Fiction. Dakota Indians -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. Dakota War, Minnesota, 1862 -- Fiction. Genre: Historical fiction Novels. ISBN: 9780385351430 0385351437 System Availability: 25 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 24 Reserve Please select and request a specific volume by clicking one of the icons in the 'Availability' section below. Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Suggestions and more Author Biography SUSANNA MOORE’s The Big Girls, In the Cut, My Old Sweetheart, One Last Look, Sleeping Beauties, and The Whiteness of Bones are available in paperback from Vintage Books. - (Random House, Inc.) Large Cover Image Librarian's View Map It Displaying 1 of 1