Inspired by the author’s original family memoirs, this absorbing story introduces us to the questing, indomitable Sarah Prine, one of the most memorable women ever to survive and prevail in the Arizona Territory of the late 1800s. As a child, a fiery young woman, and finally a caring mother, Sarah forges a life as full and as fascinating as our deepest needs, our most secret hopes and our grandest dreams. She rides Indian-style and shoots with deadly aim, greedily devours a treasure trove of leather bound books, downs fire, flood, Comanche raids and other mortal perils with the unique courage that forged the character of the American West. Sarah’s incredible story leads us into a vanished world that comes vividly to life again, while her struggles with work and home, love and responsibility resonate with those every woman faces today.
The Is My Words may be one of my favorite historical fiction novels. Here’s how I came about reading this one. A sunny winter morning and I’m waiting at the bus stop with my kids when an acquaintance from my neighborhood drives by, stops and hands me her copy of this book. She said, “I know you love to read, and I think you’ll really like this.” I was beyond words. First a surprise gift of a book but on top of that it was a book I absolutely loved, from beginning til end.
I couldn’t get enough of Sarah Prine and her story, her heartache, her strength and her determination. She was a woman of valor in her own time and had a romance that left me weeping. This book is for YA or adults alike. Highly recommend.
Quotes I liked:
My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it.”
“Our children weigh hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank, and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.”
“Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.”
I keep trying to tell my friends about this book. I loved it, and maybe if they check out your blog, they’ll finally decide to read it, too. Marilyn B.
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I keep trying to tell my friends about this book. I loved it, and maybe if they check out your blog, they’ll finally decide to read it, too.
Marilyn B.
LOVE this book! Once I got into it, I couldn’t put it down.