Twice a recipient of Canada's Governor-General's Award, Bowering sets his new novel in western Canada 100 years ago, where a young woman named Caprice sets out to avenge the killing of her brother. Nearly six feet tall and red-headed, Caprice rides her black stallion to Mexico and back, never far behind the murderer. Wherever she goes, people are struck by her beauty, her unconventional behavior and her skill at...
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