This novel is a historical fiction about an Indian boarding school. Set in 1890 and told through the eyes of three characters, the story takes the reader through the first year of the Ursuline mission school founded along the Two Medicine River south of Browning, Montana. ALBERT is a ten-year-old Metis boy who, with his brother, is taken suddenly one morning by the Indian agent. The two boys are taken to attend the new school. KU-LONG is the school's maintenance man. He had come from China to work on the transcontinental railroad, but an explosion from faulty dynamite maims him, and forces him to look for other work. SISTER MARY VERONICA is a young Ursuline nun who has recently professed her vows. Her first missionary assignment is to teach English at the new school. Through these three perspectives, the story of a year in a Catholic Indian boarding school unfolds.
by Susan Evans, softcover, 330 pages.
