One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow: A Novel by Olivia Hawker

One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow: A Novel by Olivia Hawker
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

4.5/5.0 - Set in Wyoming in 1870, this book tells the story of the Bemis and Webber families, the women and children who must stick together to survive the winter, after Clyde Bemis kills Substance Webber, when he finds him and his wife Cora together. As one might imagine, Substance's wife, Nettie Mae has no love for the Bemis family but is convinced by her son, Clyde to take the family in for the winter. Clyde and Beulah Bemis become close, working together in the fields and with the animals. Beulah is special, she understands nature and animals in an almost mystical way.
I listened to the audiobook, and the author gives such details as allows you to feel like you are there with the characters, seeing and feeling as they do. I think if there was one thing that took away, ever so slightly, from my enjoyment, it was the narrator's portrayal of Cora, whispery and childlike. This was a book in which the two teenagers, Clyde - 16 and Cora - 13(?), were really the strong members of their families, without whom none would survive.
AtY #36: A book with six or more words in the title
Book 47 of 2021

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