Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

by Justina Ireland

But when I am dressed and looking my best, I feel like I actually have power over something. And even the smallest feeling of security is a comfort in a brutal, unforgiving world.

A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl’d pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon,—for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly. —Shakespeare, Henry V

He is trying to protect me, in the simple way men are always trying to protect women: by stealing away their freedom.

How can we make the world a better place if we are always at odds with one another for every single kind of reason under the sun?

And, of course, a reading list to help you get started: The House on Diamond Hill by Tiya Miles Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage by William Loren Katz Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, on the Stage, behind the Badge, edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles African American Women of the Old West by Tricia Martineau Wagner