One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

A Novel

De: Olivia Hawker

Narrado por: Jackie Zebrowski

From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier.

Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn’t think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse.

Losing her husband to Cora’s indiscretion is another hardship for stoic Nettie Mae. But as a brutal Wyoming winter bears down, Cora and Nettie Mae have no choice but to come together as one family - to share the duties of working the land and raising their children. There’s Nettie Mae’s son, Clyde - no longer a boy, but not yet a man - who must navigate the road to adulthood without a father to guide him, and Cora’s daughter, Beulah, who is as wild and untamable as her prairie home.

Bound by the uncommon threads in their lives and the challenges that lie ahead, Cora and Nettie Mae begin to forge an unexpected sisterhood. But when a love blossoms between Clyde and Beulah, bonds are once again tested, and these two resilient women must finally decide whether they can learn to trust each other - or else risk losing everything they hold dear.

©2019 Olivia Hawker (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

One of my favorites!

Beautiful prose. Beautiful dialogue and story. I felt so incredibly lucky to be able listen to this story and feel not only connected to the characters as they grew, forgave and were forgiven, but also the land they were so attached to. Great book!

Pretty Good

While I'm sure the characters will stay with me for a while I found this hard to listen to because of the wording which seemed fake and stilted. I kept wondering who the intended audience was. Maybe conservative Christian, but wasn't sure. I also wondered what age group it was written for.

It’s okay

It was a good book if you have time to pass, but it drags on a lot

a bit slow moving

A good book but waaaay to long for the content. I think it just was too slow moving for me. The content was good, story line as well, just slow. Had it moved faster or was a bit shorter, I would have given it a 4 or 5.

loved everything about this

great story. great narrator, great character development, great rendition of that historical place and time