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Book SynopsisFor Cricket Sings, Cahokia medicine woman, the omens have been bad. She is old, and so at this year’s Sun Ceremony she will tell her stories, the tales handed down from grandparents to grandchildren since the memory of the People began. The Sun King is dying, unable to perfom the Ceremony which will bring good crops to the fields.
Trade Review“To develop a novel of early Americans in a period so distant that we have no written records of it is to me a miracle. If tour de force were not so overworked an expression I would say that is what Cricket Sings is. To be more specific, Kathleen King has woven a believable and compelling story around the social and economic structure of a time that is known to us only through archeological records. The characters live within their culture and folkways, and are as real as characters in the best of novels.”
“Kathleen King is to be complimented on her ingenious blending of archeological data primarily from the enormous Mississippian Culture site of Cahokia in Illinois with ethnological data gathered from historic Native American groups.” * Carnegie Museum of Natural History *
“I enjoyed reading Cricket Sings and found it very well–written. The story moves smoothly. The characters are well–drawn and seem alive. The choice of an old woman for the leading character is excellent, novel, and appealing.”
