EBOOK Buffalo Soldier

With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, bestselling author Chris  Bohjalian presents this resonant novel about the formation of an unconventional familythe  ties that bind it, and the strains that pull it apart. Two years after their twin  daughters died in a flash flood, Terry and Laura Sheldon, a Vermont state trooper  and his wife, take in a foster child. His name is Alfred; he is ten years old and  African American. And he has passed through so many indifferent families that he  can&'t believe that his new one will last.  In the ensuing months Terry and Laura  will struggle to emerge from their shell of grief only to face an unexpected threat  to their marriage; Terry&'s involvement with another woman. Meanwhile, Alfred cautiously  enters the family circle, and befriends an elderly neighbor who inspires him with  the story of the buffalo soldiers, the black cavalrymen of the old West. Out of the  entwining and unfolding of their lives, The Buffalo Soldier creates a suspenseful,  moving portrait of a family, infused by Bohjalian&'s moral complexity and narrative  assurance.BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Chris Bohjalian&'sThe Light in the Ruins.