The Buffalo Soldier: A Novel

The devastating loss of their children, twin girls, in a flash flood turns the lives of Terry and Laura Sheldon upside down as their marriage is tested by grief, Terry's brief love affair with a young woman who became pregnant, and their growing relationship with their foster child, Alfred, a ten-year-old African-American boy who finds meaning in a neighbor's tales of the buffalo soldiers, African-Americans who served in the cavalry of the American West. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.