The Texicans: a Novel by Nina Vida

Author:Nina Vida
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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KATRIN

February, 1849

DILLY SIPPED THE COLTSFOOT tonic Aurelia held to her lips while Katrin, who had already changed Dilly’s nightgown and swept the floor, busied herself stirring the pot of venison stew and watching that the sparks that occasionally climbed up the unfinished walls of the chimney into the open air didn’t land on Dilly’s bedclothes and set the bed on fire. Isaac and Moe, still weak from dysentery, lay beside their mother, the whites of their eyes a waxy yellow in the cabin light. Yolanda sat quietly on the cold ground, a rag doll in her lap.

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