One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel review:5 stars (One Thousand White Women) - One of our book club members selected this book; I was a little put off by the title. Four days before our meeting I figured I better read it. Boy was I delightfully surprised, it was a great adventure. I felt as if I was right there with the main character May Dodd. This has been one of the most enjoyable books we have read in a long time. I highly recommend it.1 stars (Don't Waste Your Time or Money) - I read this novel because I wanted to learn more about Native American culture, and that's about all that it's good for. The rest of it is a really bad combination of melodrama, psuedo-feminist blather, and every late 19th-century racial/ethnic sterotype that you can think of. The characters are narrowly-drawn and completely lack any depth, and the story reads like a bad romance novel. The details about life among the Cheyenne Indians are the only part of the novel worth reading.2 stars (It reads like a Harlequin Romance...) - I have to be honest and state at the outset that I didn't finish the novel. I would have graded it a '1' but I reserve that grade for 'The DaVinci Code'. Early on it's painfully clear that the writer has not rendered his main character's voice - she sounds like a 20th Century woman, and at times like a 20th century man. And it isn't just a woman with opinions uncommon to her time, it's how she speaks, which is key in a book written as a diary. I was also dismayed to find that the 'Wives for Indians' project is a fiction. The absurdity of the plan interested me enough to buy this, expecting that, like good historical novels, one gets a dose of well-researched (in this case, little-known) history in the guise of a novel. The reviewers for Kirkus and Booklist may have overlooked the author's foreword, where he confesses that he cooked up the plot, based on the request of a Cheyenne chief for white wives - which was declined by the Army. So my skepticism was right, the book reads like a bodice-ripper, and my copy is for sale. As I note at the beginning, I didn't even finish it, so it's in excellent shape.

One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel Features:
Author: Jim Fergus
Fiction / General

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