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Title: If a Lion Could Talk
by Mildred Walker, James Welch
ISBN: 0-8032-9778-5
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Pub. Date: September, 1995
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $14.00
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Rating: 5
Summary: If a Lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Comment: Mildred Walker's depth of characters is incredible. She should be recognized as a leading writer of the mid 20th century.

"Lion" is the tale of a young minister (Mark) and his wife Harriet who go into the "Wilderness" (capital W) of Montana in the mid 1800's to Christianize the savages. The book opens as they are returning to New England, frustrated and failed, after only a few months. They both felt "alive" in the Wilderness and were rather shocked by its "lure" and both seem bewitched by one incident and person: an Indian woman, wife of the trader, who lives in both worlds (Indian and White) but will not speak English to Mark or Harriet. Mark hopes she will become his interpreter, and a believer, and tries to comfort her when her son dies. She will not speak to him, but is the source of a vision to him. This becomes a fixation, a frustration and a stamp of failure. Using Harriet's pregnancy as an excuse, they leave Montana.

Walker's elegant prose floats through the compelling story - I was held tight anticipating what would happen next to this couple who love and hate each other - each having become obsessed with the incident in Montana and the manner in which they see it. Everyone's lives become affected by the Indian Eenisskim: the righteous congregation, the self absorbed Mark, and calm, enduring, way-ahead-of-her-time Harriet. Mark says at one point "it seems I always need interpreters".

Beautifully written, full of rich characters, and a most interesting, surprising end.

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