Weaver's long-awaited adult novel returns to the themes of Red Earth, White Earth and * Sweet Land.In 1906, an emigrant family from Norway arrives in North Dakota with dreams of owning land and "moving up in the world." Tragedy plus a crime against them by a powerful man threatens to destr...

Weaver's long-awaited adult novel returns to the themes of Red Earth, White Earth and * Sweet Land.In 1906, an emigrant family from Norway arrives in North Dakota with dreams of owning land and "moving up in the world." Tragedy plus a crime against them by a powerful man threatens to destroy the family. An unlikely hero steps up. Jenny Haugen, seventeen, leads her siblings on a generational march toward agency, justice, and power. Power & Light *, the first of a two-book saga, mirrors the hard-won success of America itself and shows Weaver at the height of his powers.