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Winner-Kentucky Novel of the Year, 2003Winner-Award for Special Achievement from Fellowship of Southern WritersNominee-Southern Book Critics Circle PrizeNominee-BookSense Book of the Year (longlist)So it is that Vine, Cherokee-born and raised in the early 1900s, trains her eye on a young white man, forsaking her family and their homeland to settle in with Sauls people: his smart-as-a-whip, slow-to-love mother, Esme his brother Aaron, a gifted banjo player, hot tempered and unpredictable and Aarons flightly and chattery Melungeon wife, Aidia. Its a delicate negotiation into this new family and culture, one that Vines mother had predicted would not go smoothly. But its worse than she could have imagined. Vine is viewed as an outsider by the townspeople. Aaron, she slowly realizes, is strangely fixated on her. But what is at first difficult becomes a test of her spirit. And in the violent turn of events that ensues, she learns what it means to forgive others and, most important, how to forgive herself.