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Dec 16, 2011everydayathena rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I was excited, when I started reading Turtle Valley, to realize that some of the characters in Anderson-Dargatz's first book (A Cure for Death by Lightning) had resurfaced (much older) in this novel. The author did not disappoint. I enjoyed the juxtaposition of the narrator, Katrine's, life experience with the life experience of Maud Weeks, her dead grandmother (featured in the first novel, and well remembered in this book). I also enjoyed the feeling of 'a race against time' - Katrine is trying to put together the pieces of the past as an out-of-control forest fire moves closer to Turtle Valley, threatening evacuation. I did, however, miss the native characters from the first book, and wish there had been an 'update' on Bertha Moses' clan. Despite this absence, this was definitely a novel I'm glad I read.