In Calamity's Wake

Description for IN CALAMITY'S WAKE by Natalee Caple: Miette has no desire to meet the mother who abandoned her, a woman she knows only as an infamous soldier, drinker, and exhibition shooter: Martha Canary, made notorious as Calamity Jane. But Miette?ÇÖs beloved adoptive father makes a deathbed request that the two be reunited: ?ǣYou have to do it. Promise me you will not change your mind. I know that you?ÇÖve heard sickening things and those things are all true, but I'm sure she wants to know you.?ǥ Set in the Badlands of the North American West in the late 1800s, IN CALAMITY'S WAKE tells the story of Miette?ÇÖs quest across a landscape occupied by strangers, ghosts, and animals. On her journey she meets an old lover of her father?ÇÖs, a man who claims to be her brother, an imposter she thinks is her mother, Negro minstrel Lew Spencer, a kind madam who is her mother?ÇÖs best friend, a wolf who longs to protect her, and many others. Woven into Miette?ÇÖs story are the stori