The buffalo soldier : a novel
Bohjalian, Chris (, 1960-)
The buffalo soldier : a novel / Chris Bohjalian - New York : Vintage Contemporaries , c2002 - 422 p. ; 21 cm
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 cant 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; Terrys 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,
English
9780375725463
African American boys----Fiction
Children---Death----Fiction
Married people---Fiction
Foster parents---Fiction
Adultery ----Fiction
Vermont ----Fiction
FIC BOH
The buffalo soldier : a novel / Chris Bohjalian - New York : Vintage Contemporaries , c2002 - 422 p. ; 21 cm
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 cant 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; Terrys 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,
English
9780375725463
African American boys----Fiction
Children---Death----Fiction
Married people---Fiction
Foster parents---Fiction
Adultery ----Fiction
Vermont ----Fiction
FIC BOH
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