A faculty group at our HS school is reading The Work of Wolves by SD
author Kent Meyers. This is also the SD Humanities Council's selection
for their "One Book South Dakota" project this year. Good read!
From Publishers Weekly
Meyers's third novel (The River Warren; etc.) is a gorgeously written,
exacting exploration of duty and retribution set in dusty rural South
Dakota. There's no love lost between horse trainer Carson Fielding and
land baron Magnus Yarborough ever since a confident 14-year-old Carson
got the better of Magnus in a horse buy. But Carson, now 26, is broke,
and Magnus needs someone to train his horses and teach his wife,
Rebecca, to ride. Carson and Rebecca fall for each other, and though
their relationship remains in the realm of perfectly rendered,
unconsummated desire, Magnus becomes convinced they're having an affair.
In a bizarre act of revenge, he hides and starves the horses Carson
trained. When two teenagers, Lakota math whiz Earl Walks Alone and
German exchange student Willi Schubert, discover the abused animals,
they plot with Carson to save them; alcoholic Ted Kills Many soon joins
the mission. Meyers weaves the folklore and legend of Lakota culture
with the tension between ranchers who have worked the land for
generations and the greed of those who would take it away from them. His
spare dialogue is brilliantly and often comically expressive, and
Carson, his taciturn, rational hero, is an original and compelling
character. Strong themes of generational responsibility and family
history add resonance to this gratifying, very American novel
Susan Johnston
CHS Library
Aberdeen, SD
Sue.johnston@aberdeen.k12.sd.us
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