Orenda: A Novel of the Iroquois Nation

I am not one who cares for "romance" but when someone suggested that books by Kate Cameron were in the genre of "historical romance" I still didn't think there would be much of a difference. I hung on to the book for several years and then, one hurricane week, without electricity and no work, I lit a candle and sat down to read ORENDA. It has become one of my favorite books. Steeped in history, with a tale so compelling that I almost couldn't bear to finish it, I rushed out and bought all the other Kate Cameron (a.k.a. Beverly McGlamry) books I could find. She is a writer of inestimable talent. Her tale, while fictional, is woven within the tight constraints of factual history, so there are moments of gruesome reality. But this is juxtapositioned against a story of beauty, family, land and loss. You needn't be particularly interested in the saga of the Iroquois Nation (on which this book is based) but I promise that you will be drawn in as easily as I was, to a world I never knew about. This is a story beautifully told, of great moments and tragic ones, all exquisitely written with the true hand of a master historian.