A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape

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Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers’ Accept as true with Prize for Non-Fiction

When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house within the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. In the beginning she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American author Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons on the T.Rex Discovery Centre, the fossils to be found within the dust-dry hills. She also revels in her encounters with the wild inhabitants of this mysterious land-three coyotes in a ditch at night, their eyes glinting at nighttime; a deer on the window; a cougar pussy-footing it through a gully a couple of minutes’ walk from town.

But as Savage explores further, she uncovers a darker reality-a story of cruelty and survival set within the still-up to date past–and finds that she should reassess the tale she grew up with as the daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of prairie homesteaders.

Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and imbued with Savage’s passion for this place, A Geography of Blood offers both a shocking new version of plains history and an unforgettable portrait of the windswept, shining country of the Cypress Hills.
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