In this sequel to Coming to Her Senses: A Coming-of-Age Novel, the Blue Clouds, a Cherokee family living in the mountains of North Carolina in the early nineteen-seventies, must come to terms with the cultural clashes that often accompany mixed marriages, the influences of the counterculture reshaping the lives and values of the youth of their time, and the desire to maintain their language against formidable odds. A legacy of intergenerational trauma, the tensions of younger family members coping with unplanned parenthood, and the perils of religious fanaticism, particularly when its seeds are sown in an unstable mind, all come to bear in this novel about the power and lessons of love, the fruits of forgiveness, the rewards of resiliency, and ultimately, the capacity of the human spirit to prevail.
