May is 12 when her father takes her out of school—after all, she can’t seem to learn to read--and hires her out to the Oblingers, another farmer and his wife. The farmer’s wife is new to the prairie and she isn’t adjusting. May is supposed to ease that adjustment. May doesn’t want to go, but s...
It flies from branch to branch, as blue as the morning. “Iacháwanes,” I say. Her lips move. “Ia-chá . . .” She wants the word to be her own. “Iacháwanes.” &nbs...