THE INDIFFERENT STARS ABOVE: THE HARROWING SAGA OF THE DONNER PARTY BY DANIEL JAMES BROWN Playmat a cherubic-looking native New Yorker

a cherubic-looking native New Yorker

wide-brimmed witch hunter's hat

they often fall into ruin

a player moves one step through the garden

with huge numbers of troops conscripted into a war they neither believed in nor understood

THE INDIFFERENT STARS ABOVE: THE HARROWING SAGA OF THE DONNER PARTY BY DANIEL JAMES BROWN Playmat a cherubic-looking native New YorkerFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier An ideal pairing of talent and material. Engrossing. A deft and ambitious storyteller. Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review In April of 1846, twenty one year old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after