Charity

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Love, loyalty, and survival in a small South Dakota town: a historical novel about the strength of women and the bonds that sustain them. The friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster's daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider, and Lena is too proud to share her problems (which include a hard-drinking husband) with anyone else. On the nearby Sioux reservation, Gustie also finds love and family with two Dakotah women: Dorcas Many Roads, an old medicine woman, and her adopted granddaughter, Jordis, who bears the scars of the white man's education. When Lena's husband is arrested for murdering his father and the secrets of Gustie's past follow her to Charity, Lena, Gustie, and Jordis stand together. As buried horrors are unearthed and present tragedies unfold, they discover the strength and beauty of love and friendship that blossom like wild flowers in the tough prairie soil.

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Paulette Callen's first novel Charity was published by Simon and Schuster in 1997. Since then, she has written three other novels: Command of Silence, Death Can Be Murder, and Fervent Charity (the sequel to Charity, published late summer 2013, along with a re-issue of Charity, by Ylva Publishing). After many years as a resident of Manhattan's Upper West Side, she has returned to her hometown in South Dakota.

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