Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maud’s Line | 2015 | Margaret Verble | Buy |
| 2 | Cherokee America | 2019 | Margaret Verble | Buy |
| 3 | When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky | 2021 | Margaret Verble | Buy |
| 4 | Stealing | 2023 | Margaret Verble | Buy |
Margaret Verble is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation whose four novels span nearly a century of Cherokee life in Oklahoma and Tennessee. Her debut, Maud’s Line (2015), set in 1928 on Indian allotment land, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Cherokee America (2019), a prequel set in 1875, follows a Cherokee landowner managing her family and property in the Arkansas River bottoms and was named one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year.
When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky (2021) shifts to 1926 Nashville, where a young Cherokee horse-diver at the Glendale Park Zoo gets caught up in a mystery that reaches back centuries. Stealing (2023), Verble’s most recent novel, draws on the painful history of Native American boarding schools and follows a nine-year-old Cherokee girl in the 1950s. While each book stands on its own, all four share Verble’s attention to landscape, family bonds, and the daily realities of Cherokee life across different periods of American history.