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By Shelton Johnson

Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping relations of African and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy by no means lived as a slave, yet his self-image as a loose individual is at warfare along with his atmosphere: Spartanburg, South Carolina, within the Reconstructed South. Exiled for his personal survival as undefined, Elijah walks west to the Nebraska plains and, like different rootless younger African-American males of that period, joins the U.S. Cavalry.

The trajectory of Elijah’s military occupation parallels the nation’s imperial adventures within the past due 19th century: subduing local americans within the West and quelling uprising within the Philippines. Haunted by means of the terrors continued by way of black americans and by means of his half in persecuting folks of colour, Elijah is continued in simple terms by way of visions, thoughts, prayers, and his questing spirit—which eventually unearths a house while his troop is published to protect the newly created Yosemite nationwide Park in 1903. right here, dwelling with little past mountain mild, chilly rivers, campfires, and stars, he turns into a guy who owns himself thoroughly, whereas realizing he’s left items of himself scattered alongside his life’s course like pebbles on a creekbed.

Elijah's narrative voice—poetic, rhythmically cadenced, ranging freely via time—makes this novel a literary meditation on discovering a self and a non secular domestic, whereas unveiling a little-known bankruptcy of America’s past.

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