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The buffalo soldier : a novel

With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian presents this resonant novel about the formation of an unconventional family?the ties that bind it, and the strains that pull it apart. Two years after their twin daughters died in a flash flood, Terry and Laura Sheldon, a Vermont state trooper and his wife, take in a foster child. His name is Alfred; he is ten years old and African American. And he has passed through so many indifferent families that he can?t believe that his new one will last. In the ensuing months Terry and Laura will struggle to emerge from their shell of grief only to face an unexpected threat to their marriage; Terry?s involvement with another woman. Meanwhile, Alfred cautiously enters the family circle, and befriends an elderly neighbor who inspires him with the story of the buffalo soldiers, the black cavalrymen of the old West. Out of the entwining and unfolding of their lives, The Buffalo Soldier creates a suspenseful, moving portrait of a family, infused by Bohjalian?s moral complexity and narrative assurance.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • "With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian presents this resonant novel about the formation of an unconventional family?the ties that bind it, and the strains that pull it apart. Two years after their twin daughters died in a flash flood, Terry and Laura Sheldon, a Vermont state trooper and his wife, take in a foster child. His name is Alfred; he is ten years old and African American. And he has passed through so many indifferent families that he can?t believe that his new one will last. In the ensuing months Terry and Laura will struggle to emerge from their shell of grief only to face an unexpected threat to their marriage; Terry?s involvement with another woman. Meanwhile, Alfred cautiously enters the family circle, and befriends an elderly neighbor who inspires him with the story of the buffalo soldiers, the black cavalrymen of the old West. Out of the entwining and unfolding of their lives, The Buffalo Soldier creates a suspenseful, moving portrait of a family, infused by Bohjalian?s moral complexity and narrative assurance.From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "A grieving couple foster a young African-American who learns the history of the buffalo soldiers from neighbours while the foster father becomes briefly involved with another woman and decides that he wants the child she conceives."@en
  • "The devastating loss of their twin daughters in a flash flood turns the lives of Terry and Laura Sheldon upside down as their marriage is tested by grief, Terry's brief love affair, and their growing relationship with their foster child, a ten-year-old African American boy."@en
  • "After losing their twin daughters in a flash flood, a grief-stricken couple take in a foster child."@en
  • "After losing their twin daughters in a flash flood, a grief-stricken couple take in a foster child."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"

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  • "The Buffalo soldier"
  • "The Buffalo Soldier"@en
  • "The buffalo soldier"@en
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