Maud's Line

In 1928 Maud Nail, eighteen, lives with her father and her sensitive brother on land allotted to their Cherokee family in rural Oklahoma. Her mother died years ago and her father is often away carousing or on the run, so Maud keeps the household going; when a vengeful neighbour maims the family cow with an axe, it is she who must shoot it. She reads every book she can find and longs for a wider life. While her brother lies ill she begins a romance with Booker Wakefield, a courteous white travelling salesman, but when he goes away without warning she drifts into an affair with a young man from the area.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Family, Love, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, 1928

First published

2015

ISBN

9780544470194 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, United States)

9780544705241 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, United States)