The Buffalo Soldier - Softcover
After a family tragedy, Laura convinces Terry to take in an African-American foster child. He cautiously enters the Sheldon family circle. Across the street an older couple take Alfred under their wings as surrogate grandparents, and they introduce him to the history of the buffalo soldiers.
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There are certain plots that possess inherent drama, and the saving of a lost child is one of them. In The Buffalo Soldier, Chris Bohjalian--who showed such flair for drama in the bestselling Oprah's Book Club® pick Midwives--gives us the story of 10-year-old Alfred, an African American foster child who is taken in by Terry and Laura Sheldon, a white couple whose twin daughters have drowned. Another child is also about to come on the scene: Terry has an affair, and the young woman becomes pregnant. Bohjalian takes his sweet time exploring these relationships, but he also writes scenes with the same tautness that made Midwives a page-turner. The result is a novel that's both readable and exhaustively fleshed out. As Alfred settles into the Sheldons' lives, we actually come to believe in the unlikely little family the three of them forge. Bohjalian narrates his story from the perspective of each of his principal characters, a method that can be tiresome, but here is made fresh by the author's clear vision: these people, you feel, are real to him. --Claire Dederer
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11 cassettes, 16 hours
In the tradition of his #1 New York Times bestselling novel Midwives, Chris Bohjalian returns with a story of love put to the test by a devastating loss and the redemption that can come from the most unexpected places.
Terry and Laura Sheldon experience an especially tragic version of every parent's nightmare. They lose not one but both of their children, nine-year-old twin girls, when a flash flood thunders through their small Vermont town. Shattered, the two spend a year trying to regain some measure of emotional equilibrium. Physically unable to have more children of their own, they finally decide to take in a foster child, Alfred, a ten-year-old African American boy.
Like life, THE BUFFALO SOLDIER then develops in divergent ways. Terry has a a brief affair with a young woman who becomes pregnant with his child - a child that Terry suddenly realizes he wants desperately. And Alfred, another soul hungry for love, is transformed through a neighbor's friendship and his tales of the Buffalo soldiers, African Americans who served in the cavalry of the American West.
THE BUFFALO SOLDIER is the best kind of Chris Bohjalian novel, a story of a small town and its fundamentally good people trying to overcome the trials of fate and circumstance.
11 cassettes, 16 hours
In the tradition of his #1 New York Times bestselling novel Midwives, Chris Bohjalian returns with a story of love put to the test by a devastating loss and the redemption that can come from the most unexpected places.
Terry and Laura Sheldon experience an especially tragic version of every parent's nightmare. They lose not one but both of their children, nine-year-old twin girls, when a flash flood thunders through their small Vermont town. Shattered, the two spend a year trying to regain some measure of emotional equilibrium. Physically unable to have more children of their own, they finally decide to take in a foster child, Alfred, a ten-year-old African American boy.
Like life, THE BUFFALO SOLDIER then develops in divergent ways. Terry has a a brief affair with a young woman who becomes pregnant with his child - a child that Terry suddenly realizes he wants desperately. And Alfred, another soul hungry for love, is transformed through a neighbor's friendship and his tales of the Buffalo soldiers, African Americans who served in the cavalry of the American West.
THE BUFFALO SOLDIER is the best kind of Chris Bohjalian novel, a story of a small town and its fundamentally good people trying to overcome the trials of fate and circumstance.
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- PublisherHarper Collins
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0732274818
- ISBN 13 9780732274818
- BindingPaperback
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