Stealing: A Novel

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This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gainess The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontess Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird.New York Times Book Review

A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950san ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of history and small-town prejudices from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble.

Kit Crockett lives on a farm with her grief-stricken, widowed father, tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day, Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road.

Kit and the newcomer, Bella, become friends, and the lonely Kit draws comfort from her. But when a malicious neighbor finds out, Kit suddenly finds herself at the center of a tragic, fatal crime and becomes a ward of the court. Her Cherokee family wants to raise her, but the righteous Christians in town instead send her to a religious boarding school. Kits heritage is attacked, and shes subjected to religious indoctrination and other forms of abuse. But Kit secretly keeps a journal recounting what she remembersand revealing just what she has forgotten. Over the course of Stealing, she unravels the truth of how she ended up at the school and plots a way out. If only she can make her plan work in time.

In swift, sharp, and stunning prose, Margaret Verble spins a powerful coming-of-age tale and reaffirms her place as an indelible storyteller and chronicler of history.

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MARGARET VERBLE is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She is the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, New York Times Notable Book of the Year Cherokee America, and When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky.