The Buffalo Soldier - Hardcover

" In The Buffalo Soldier, Bohjalian proves once again that he's a master novelist." - "The Boston Globe"
" Bohjalian plunges [his characters] into a dramatic situation so powerful that even their quiet voices cannot fail to be heard. . . .The Buffalo Soldier is imbued with hope and the possibility for redemption." - "The Washington Post"

" Bohjalian gives us fine-grained detail and beautifully observed domestic psychology." - "The Los Angeles Times"

" Beautifully wrought. . . . A moving account of personal strength and the joy of belonging." " - San Francisco Chronicle"
" If it's captivating literature you're after, The Buffalo Soldier earns a solid A." - "Entertainment Weekly"
"In The Buffalo Soldier, Bohjalian proves once again that he's a master novelist." -"The Boston Globe"
"Bohjalian plunges [his characters] into a dramatic situation so powerful that even their quiet voices cannot fail to be heard. . . .The Buffalo Soldier is imbued with hope and the possibility for redemption." -"The Washington Post"
"Bohjalian gives us fine-grained detail and beautifully observed domestic psychology." -"The Los Angeles Times"
"Beautifully wrought. . . . A moving account of personal strength and the joy of belonging."" -San Francisco Chronicle"
"If it's captivating literature you're after, The Buffalo Soldier earns a solid A." -"Entertainment Weekly"
In The Buffalo Soldier, Bohjalian proves once again that he's a master novelist. "The Boston Globe"
Bohjalian plunges [his characters] into a dramatic situation so powerful that even their quiet voices cannot fail to be heard. . . .The Buffalo Soldier is imbued with hope and the possibility for redemption. "The Washington Post"
Bohjalian gives us fine-grained detail and beautifully observed domestic psychology. "The Los Angeles Times"
Beautifully wrought. . . . A moving account of personal strength and the joy of belonging. " San Francisco Chronicle"
If it's captivating literature you're after, The Buffalo Soldier earns a solid A. "Entertainment Weekly"
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In The Buffalo Soldier, Bohjalian proves once again that he's a master novelist. The Boston Globe
Bohjalian plunges [his characters] into a dramatic situation so powerful that even their quiet voices cannot fail to be heard. . . .The Buffalo Soldier is imbued with hope and the possibility for redemption. The Washington Post
Bohjalian gives us fine-grained detail and beautifully observed domestic psychology. The Los Angeles Times
Beautifully wrought. . . . A moving account of personal strength and the joy of belonging. San Francisco Chronicle
If it's captivating literature you're after, The Buffalo Soldier earns a solid A. Entertainment Weekly
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In the tradition of his No 1 New York Times bestselling novel Midwives, Chris Bohjalian returns with a story of love put to the test by a devastating loss and the redemot on that can come from the most unexpected places. Terry and Laura Sheldon experience an especially tragic version of every parent's nightmare. They lose not one but both of their children, nine-year old twin girls, when a flash flood thunders through their small Vermont town. Shattered, the two spend a year trying to regain some measure of emotional equilibrium. Physically unable to have more children of their own, they finally decide to take in a foster child, Alfred, a ten-year old African American boy. Life life, The Buffalo Soldier then develops in divergent ways, Terry has a brief affair with a young woman who becomes pregnant with his child - a child that Terry suddenly realises he wants desperately. And Alfred, another soul hungry for love, is transformed through a neighbour's friendship and his tales of the buffalo soldiers, African Americans who served in the cavalry of the American West.

The Buffalo Soldier is the best kind of Chris Bohjalian novel, a story of a small+town and its fundamentally good people trying to overcome the trials of fate and circumstance.