This becomes the central source of tension, as Wes must decide between his duty as the Sheriff and his loyalty to his family.
Gail immediately confides in Wesley who is both the Sheriff of their town and Frank’s brother. Marie then reveals to Gail that she has heard that Dr Frank has been sexually abusing many of his female Native American patients. Gail concludes that something sinister must be happening for her to have such a reaction and she presses Marie for why she is so afraid. However, Marie reacts to this idea with fear, anxiety and resistance. Gail and Wesley, David’s parents, attempt to enlist the help of Wesley’s brother Frank, a well-respected doctor in the community. It begins with David noticing that his Native American babysitter, Marie Little Soldier is unwell.
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The movie rights to MONTANA 1948 and JUSTICE have been sold to Echo Lake Productions and WHITE CROSSES and ORCHARD have been optioned for film.Montana 1948 is narrated by David Hayden, now a middle-aged history teacher, reflecting on the summer of 1948 that changed his entire life. Watson’s fiction has been published in ten foreign editions, and has received prizes and awards from Milkweed Press, Friends of American Writers, Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association, Mountain and Plains Library Association, New York Public Library, Wisconsin Library Association, Critics’ Choice, and The High Plains Book Award. Larry Watson is the author of the novels AS GOOD AS GONE, LET HIM GO, MONTANA 1948, AMERICAN BOY, IN A DARK TIME, WHITE CROSSES, LAURA, ORCHARD, and SUNDOWN, YELLOW MOON the fiction collection JUSTICE and the chapbook of poetry LEAVING DAKOTA. Watson has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1987, 2004) and the Wisconsin Arts Board. from the creative writing program at the University of Utah, and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Ripon College. He received his BA and MA from the University of North Dakota, his Ph.D. Larry married his high school sweetheart, Susan Gibbons, in 1967.
He grew up in Bismarck, North Dakota, and was educated in its public schools. Larry Watson was born in 1947 in Rugby, North Dakota. With nearly perfect pitch, Watson evokes a time, a place, and more: a story whose pages will not stop turning, because its characters will not let them. In a voice as brilliantly clear as the eastern Montana sky, Larry Watson has created a completely new American classic. As their story unravels around David, he learns that truth is not what you believe it to be, that power is abused, and that sometimes you have to choose between family loyalty and justice. The events of that cataclysmic summer permanently alter twelve-year-old David's understanding of his family: his father, a small-town sheriff his remarkably strong mother the Hayden's Sioux housekeeper, Marie Little Soldier, whose revelations are at the heart of the story David's uncle, a war hero and respected doctor. So begins David Hayden's story of what happened in Montana in 1948.
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"From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them."
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