![]() There are things that Kathy witnesses and experiences that are raw and terrible, and there are also horrifying stories that are told to her second-hand. Mike also has elements of horror as well. Mike touts it as a love story, and that description is true. Mike is the warmer of the two books, however, and less cynical in its depiction of people than Lonesome Dove. Maybe I found them similar because they’re both frontier stories, but I think it’s also the particular liveliness that both books possess that also connected them in my mind. In storytelling style, I found it reminiscent of my experience reading Larry McMurtry’s amazing epic Lonesome Dove. ![]() Sometimes you want a novel that just moves. Mike has a brisk pace, of the sort that I really like. Many of the people she meets are from First Nation tribes such as Dane-zaa (called Beaver in the book) and the Cree. The novel is about Katherine’s relationship with her husband and it’s also about her relationship with the harsh country and the people who live there. They marry and his job soon takes them to remote outposts in northern Canada. Soon after her arrival, she meets and falls in love with Sergeant Mike Flannigan, an officer in the Canadian Mounted Police. ![]() ![]() In 1907, 16-year-old Katherine Mary O’Fallon travels from Boston to live with her uncle in Calgary, Alberta. ![]()
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