Nicole Helget
Clement and Angel are fraternal twins separated at birth; they grow up in the same small, frontier loggingÂ town of Stillwater, Minnesota. Clement was left at the orphanage. Angel was adopted by the townâ€™s richest couple, but is marked and threatened by her motherâ€™s mental illness. They rarely meet, but Clement knows if he is truly in need, Angel will come to save him. Stillwater,Â near the Mississippi River andÂ Canada, becomes an important stop on the Underground Railroad. As Clement and Angel grow up and the country marches to war, their lives are changed by many battles for freedom and by losses in the struggle for independence, large and small.,Stillwater,Â reveals the hardscrabble lives of pioneers, nuns, squaws, fur trappers, loggers, runaway slaves and freedmen,Â outlaws and people of conscience, all seekingÂ a better, freer,Â more prosperous future. It is a novel about mothers, about siblings, about the ways in which we must take care of one another and let go of one another. And itâ€™sÂ brought to us in Nicole Helgetâ€™s winning, gorgeous prose.
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Stillwater