Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen

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“Sarah Bird takes a few scant lines from history–fragments, really, the barest of bones that have come down to us of Cathy Williams, slave, freedwoman, U.S. Calvary trooper–and spins from them this magnificent imagining of a flesh-and-blood, heart-and-soul Cathy Williams who fears and loves and wants and hurts just as fiercely as any of us. This wonderful novel is as rich in the telling as Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man and Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, but Bird is breaking new ground, staking out a whole different territory. Cathy Williams, a black woman in history; what’s been lost to time and neglect is surely regained in good measure by this brilliant, powerful novel.” – Ben Fountain, New York Times bestselling author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk