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Title: In Calamity's Wake
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Natalee Caple
Narrator: Jorjeana Marie
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-27-13
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A strikingly vivid audiobook about the adventures of Calamity Jane and the abandoned daughter who seeks to be reunited with her.
Miette has no desire to meet the mother who abandoned her, a woman she knows only as an infamous soldier, drinker, and exhibition shooter: Martha Canary, made notorious as Calamity Jane. But Miette's beloved adoptive father makes a deathbed request that the two be reunited: "You have to do it. Promise me you will not change your mind. I know that you've heard sickening things and those things are all true, but I'm sure she wants to know you."
Set in the Badlands of the North American West in the late 1800s, In Calamity's Wake tells the story of Miette's quest across a landscape occupied by strangers, ghosts, and animals. On her journey she meets an old lover of her father's, a man who claims to be her brother, an imposter she thinks is her mother, Negro minstrel Lew Spencer, a kind madam who is her mother's best friend, a wolf who longs to protect her, and many others.
Woven into Miette's story are the stories of Jane as told in legend, history books, dime store novels, and by the woman herself. When Miette and her mother finally meet, the many threads of these tales come together and Miette must decide whether to forgive the woman who had forsaken her for a life of danger and adventure.
Members Reviews:
One of the best reads this year
Well researched, well constructed, well written, this novel is also a deeply felt meditation on connection and longing.
The story begins with the 3rd person narration of Martha's (Calamity Jane's) beginnings. Next, we hear from Miette, Martha's daughter, who she gave as an infant to a travelling bishop to raise, which he did, and well. His dying words to Miette told her who her mother was, and to find her. From there we alternate, more or less, between the two odysseys, which occasional interruptions by other characters or newspaper reports from the day. Gradually, the sad story of Calamity Jane and all the loss in her life is revealled, as Miette comes closer.
Loved it
It is a sugar coated version of the goings on in the old west or what happened in South Dakota. I visited Deadwood and saw her grave on Boot Hill and this book brought back all those memories.
interesting
Nice background on someone everyone knows, but not really. Nice depiction of the "west" and the characters of that era, enjoyed the read
Different
The book was interesting but it jumped around a bit so it was a little tough to follow. Not an easy read.
Miette, meet your mother Martha...
According to author Natalee Caple, this story was inspired by a claim Calamity Jane herself is said to have made that she bore James Butler (aka "Wild Bill") Hickock a child (without his knowledge, I'm guessing, if the story is true) but shortly after the birth had given it up for adoption. So what might have become of this child? In Calamity's Wake theorizes on this. In Caple's story, Martha Canary's (aka "Calamity Jane") daughter is adopted by a man of the cloth, who nicknames the girl Miette (the girl's birth name is Martha, after her mother). Years later, when Miette's adoptive father is on his deathbed, he implores her to go and find her mother, get to know her, make peace with their past, etc.
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Title: In Calamity's Wake
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Natalee Caple
Narrator: Jorjeana Marie
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-27-13
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A strikingly vivid audiobook about the adventures of Calamity Jane and the abandoned daughter who seeks to be reunited with her.
Miette has no desire to meet the mother who abandoned her, a woman she knows only as an infamous soldier, drinker, and exhibition shooter: Martha Canary, made notorious as Calamity Jane. But Miette's beloved adoptive father makes a deathbed request that the two be reunited: "You have to do it. Promise me you will not change your mind. I know that you've heard sickening things and those things are all true, but I'm sure she wants to know you."
Set in the Badlands of the North American West in the late 1800s, In Calamity's Wake tells the story of Miette's quest across a landscape occupied by strangers, ghosts, and animals. On her journey she meets an old lover of her father's, a man who claims to be her brother, an imposter she thinks is her mother, Negro minstrel Lew Spencer, a kind madam who is her mother's best friend, a wolf who longs to protect her, and many others.
Woven into Miette's story are the stories of Jane as told in legend, history books, dime store novels, and by the woman herself. When Miette and her mother finally meet, the many threads of these tales come together and Miette must decide whether to forgive the woman who had forsaken her for a life of danger and adventure.
Members Reviews:
One of the best reads this year
Well researched, well constructed, well written, this novel is also a deeply felt meditation on connection and longing.
The story begins with the 3rd person narration of Martha's (Calamity Jane's) beginnings. Next, we hear from Miette, Martha's daughter, who she gave as an infant to a travelling bishop to raise, which he did, and well. His dying words to Miette told her who her mother was, and to find her. From there we alternate, more or less, between the two odysseys, which occasional interruptions by other characters or newspaper reports from the day. Gradually, the sad story of Calamity Jane and all the loss in her life is revealled, as Miette comes closer.
Loved it
It is a sugar coated version of the goings on in the old west or what happened in South Dakota. I visited Deadwood and saw her grave on Boot Hill and this book brought back all those memories.
interesting
Nice background on someone everyone knows, but not really. Nice depiction of the "west" and the characters of that era, enjoyed the read
Different
The book was interesting but it jumped around a bit so it was a little tough to follow. Not an easy read.
Miette, meet your mother Martha...
According to author Natalee Caple, this story was inspired by a claim Calamity Jane herself is said to have made that she bore James Butler (aka "Wild Bill") Hickock a child (without his knowledge, I'm guessing, if the story is true) but shortly after the birth had given it up for adoption. So what might have become of this child? In Calamity's Wake theorizes on this. In Caple's story, Martha Canary's (aka "Calamity Jane") daughter is adopted by a man of the cloth, who nicknames the girl Miette (the girl's birth name is Martha, after her mother). Years later, when Miette's adoptive father is on his deathbed, he implores her to go and find her mother, get to know her, make peace with their past, etc.