Quiet Until the Thaw

A Novel

By: Alexandra Fuller

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

The debut novel from the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Leaving Before the Rains Come.

“Awe inspiring . . . An ardent, original, and beautifully wrought book.” —The New York Times Book Review

Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota.

Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, are pitted against each other as their tribe is torn apart by infighting. Rick chooses the path of peace and stays; You Choose, violent and unpredictable, strikes out on his own. When he returns, after three decades behind bars, he disrupts the fragile peace and threatens the lives of the entire reservation.

A complex tale that spans generations and geography, Quiet Until the Thaw conjures, with the implications of an oppressed history, how we are bound not just to immediate family but to all who have come before and will come after us, and, most of all, to the notion that everything was always, and is always, connected.

Widow in to Lakota Soux

Very good book. Short interesting captures. The writer lived with the Tribe and had a real feeling for their culture. The narrator was fantastic.

better written than read

the story is fine, but the way it is presented in fits and starts and with explanations of some of the Indian terms makes it difficult as an audiobook. I would get the Kindle edition.

A look in the Mirror

Very entertaining and well worth a listen.. We have forgotten the history of wrongs that have been trust on Native Americans, and point our fingers at other groups and countries, this is a good reminder that Apartheid was based almost word for word on the Indian reservation system. Mohican Sun & Sun City smae thing.

Loved this best narration ever

This was a magnificent book. Maybe one of my favorite books ever. Very enjoyable. Wish her other books were like this.

Very hard to connect with characters

I can't get past Chapter 8. Lacks character development seen in this authors other novels. I wanted to like it, but I am choosing another book.