The Indifferent Stars Above
Daniel James Brown • 2009
Devastation Rating
survival historical literary fiction loss
Our Take
The Donner Party told through the experience of one young woman. Brown writes the descent from hopeful emigration to cannibalism with horrifying clarity. The cult of Manifest Destiny consumed them literally, and the stars above — indifferent, beautiful — watched the whole time.
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