Sacajewea inhabits a mythical space in history as a footnote in the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Debra Magpie Earling reimagines the explorer's life in luminous prose in this work of historical fiction, vividly describing a childhood spent catching fish, stripping animal hides, and fearing the Enemy…until colonizers thunder through Sacajewea's home and take her hostage. This bracing, elegant, transcendent novel offers a visionary new perspective on one of the most memorialized chapters of American history. (RR)