Cynthia's review
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
Not really like a fiction novel, this reads like really good, well-told history. I really liked it but it isn't a riproaring page-turning bestseller kind of a book. It's the story of the Cherokee indian nation and the process by which the US government forced them out of South Carolina and into the far west. It's all told from the point of view of a boy who is basically abandoned at ayoung age and adopted into a Cherokee clan. He's very colorful and has an interesting life, but the story is really not about him but about the place and time he lives in. At one point the author describes indians (aztec or inca) who don't make constellations from the stars but from the dark spaces between the stars. That's how ths book is written. It's the story about the cherokees who were dispossessed (the trail of tears), but told from the point of view of the cherokees who managed to remain in South Carolina. And there is a love triangle between three characters, but it is told in sort of a sketchy of...more
