Bohemian Girl

Young Harriet's father sells her as a slave to settle his gambling debt with an eccentric Indian - and her story is just beginning. Part Huck Finn, part True Grit, Harriet's story of her encounter with the dark and brutal history of the American West is a true original. When she escapes the strange mound-building obsession of her Pawnee captor, Harriet sets off on a trek to find her father, only to meet with ever-stranger characters and situations along the way. She befriends a Jewish prairie peddler, escapes with a chanteuse, is imprisoned in a stockade and rescued by a Civil War balloonist, and becomes an accidental shopkeeper and the surrogate mother to an abandoned child, while abetting the escape of runaway slaves. A picaresque in the American vein, Terese Svoboda's new novel is the Bohemian answer to Willa Cather's iconic My Antonia. Lifting the shadows off an entire era of American history in one brave girl's quest to discover who she is, Bohemian Girl gives full play to Svoboda's prodigious talents for finding the dark and the strange in the sunny American story - and the beauty and the hope in its darkest moments.

ISBN 0803226829   Pages 208 ISBN13 9780803226821 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 254 Publisher Bison Original   Published in Lincoln Imprint Bison Original   Series title Flyover Fiction Format Paperback   Height (mm) 217 Publication date 13 Oct 2011   Width (mm) 141 DEWEY 813.6   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

"Bohemian Girl is beautiful and believable and altogether wonderful. Terese Svoboda has transmuted a familiar story and setting and character types into a fine and movingly original piece of fiction that I'm still haunted by. She will, of course, be compared to Willa Cather - and deservedly so." Kurt Andersen, author of New York Times bestseller Heyday, winner of the Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction

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