Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Maud’s Line | 2015 | Buy |
| Cherokee America | 2019 | Buy |
| When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky | 2021 | Buy |
| Stealing | 2023 | Buy |
Margaret Verble is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a member of a large Cherokee family with deep roots in Oklahoma. Though she was raised in Nashville, Tennessee, and now lives in Lexington, Kentucky, much of her fiction is set on the allotment land near Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, where her family has lived for generations.
Her debut novel, Maud’s Line (2015), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Set in 1928 on Indian allotment land, it follows a young Cherokee woman navigating love and hardship at the end of a dirt road. Cherokee America (2019), a prequel set in 1875, earned a spot on the New York Times 100 Notable Books list and won the Spur Award for Best Western. When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky (2021) moves to 1926 Nashville and follows a Cherokee horse-diver working at a zoo. Her most recent novel, Stealing (2023), draws on the history of Native American boarding schools and tells the story of a nine-year-old Cherokee girl in the 1950s. Across all four books, Verble writes with a clear eye for place, history, and the daily texture of Cherokee life.