Touches the Sky: A Novel

by James C. Schaap

Paperback, 2003

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Publication

Fleming H Revell Co (2003), 256 pages

Description

Tensions mount on the plains when the Sioux are accused of murdering a Dutch settler. But can anyone escape the coming calamity?

Language

Original language

English

ISBN

0800758927 / 9780800758929

User reviews

LibraryThing member PeaceUMC
Strained already, the atmosphere on the plains crackles when a Dutch hired hand is found dead. The settlers accuse the Lakota who insist on their innocence, and know much more than their honor is threatened. Their freedom, home, and very way of life are at stake.

Seen through the eyes of Jan and
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his wife, Dalitha, Touches the Sky probes a clash of cultures, lifestyle, and ways to know God and practice faith. Absorbing and sensitive, it seeks to understand the making of the West, the depths of humanity, and a God whom Jan admits can seem as vast and unknown as the prairie.
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LibraryThing member DaleVanWyhe
I enjoyed reading this book. It is very close to history and I have compassion for what we did to the Indian, in taking their land and cheating them. It also speaks of the faith they had and how we removed that from their lives.
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