Remarkable fh-st novel... Frazier weaves the two narrative strands together with consummate skill, creating a story that is horrifying without being bloodthirsty, romantic without being sentimental. His picture of two lovers trying to come together across a blastedlandscape reaches mythical heights at times... Their eventual reunion is unblinkingly poignant, its mixture of deep beauty and harrowing sadness a reminder that not all of war's casualties lie in neat battlefield rows, awaiting the historian's tabulating eye. Some of them can only be counted by novelists with grace and imagination- like Frazier.

WILL COOPER'S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY AND HOME BEGINS AT THE AGE OF TWELVE, when he is given a horse, a key and a map, and sent to the edge of the Cherokee Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy.With a Cherokee chief named Bear and the mysterious and beautiful Claire Featherstone,

Will finds the passionate connections and the complications of manhood that will forge his character and shape his life. As his fate becomes intertwined with the destiny of the Cherokee, Will travels to Washington City to fight against the Removal of the Indians from their land and to protect Bear's people, their culture, and way of life.

In a voice filled with insight, hurnour and regret, Will tells of a long life's journey, from the beautiful forests and mountains of the Nation across the South and up and down the Mississippi River, and on into the twentieth century.THIRTEEN MOONS is a novel of breathtaking power and beauty by an American master.