Copper Crown (Hardcover)

Copper Crown is a remarkable first novel, both for its unusual heroines and the strength and originality of its narrative voice. The time is 1913; the place, Copper Crown, Texas. In the wake of lynchings and racial violence that burn down the town, two women--one white, one black--flee, taking with them a baby girl whose mother died in childbirth. Von Herzen reveals what happens in the lives of this unlikely trio in a story based on actual events.