Spirits Do Not Rest
Heartbreak at Wounded Knee
1890. People are fleeing South Dakota due to rumors of Sioux uprisings and Ghost Dancing. Army troops arrive in numbers the U.S. hasn’t deployed since the Civil War. Newspapers across the country are fomenting prejudice and fear. The country waits for war. Twenty-two-year-old Lauder risks it all, leaving her home to teach at a reservation day school.
Best Selling Author
Margaret Lukas
Margaret Lukas taught writing for over a decade at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She received her BFA from UNO’s Writer’s Workshop in 2004. In 2007, her MFA from Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma, Washington. For her first novel, she is a recipient of a Nebraska Art Council Individual Artist Fellowship for her first novel, Farthest House.
Other Novels
The Broken Statue
When her father is murdered, a crime that does not interest the law because he was half Native American, she risks her plans to become a doctor, determined to avenge his murder.
River People
In Nebraska in the late 1890s, seventeen-year-old Effie and eleven-year-old Bridget must struggle to endure at a time when women and children have few rights and society looks upon domestic abuse as a private, family matter.
Farthest House
When Willow is born and her mother dies moments later, only the narrator of this spellbinding, debut novel knows the death isn’t from complications of childbirth. Amelie-Anaïs, buried on the Nebraska hilltop where the family home resides, tells this story of deceit, survival, and love from beyond the grave.