Release Date: June 5
Author: Marianne Wiggins
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
This is a novel by Marianne Wiggins (John Dollar, Evidence of Things Unseen) featuring a character named Marianne Wiggins who is researching the life of turn-of-the-century photographer Edward Curtis. The fictional Wiggins learns that Curtis wasn't just a swashbuckling, iconic photographer of Native American life, he was also something of a jerk — a lousy husband and father. This is just as her own long-absent father, who she thought was dead, has resurfaced. The intertwining narratives braid together past and present, reality and legend, to ask pointed questions about how much we can know about our country's history, or our own.