The tragic tale of a Montana family ripped apart by scandal and murder: “a significant and elegant addition to the fiction of the American West” (Washington Post).
"De l'été de mes douze ans, je garde les images les plus saisissantes et les plus tenaces de toute mon enfance, que le temps passant n'a pu chasser ni même estomper.
I sommeren 1948 ændres den 12-årige Davids liv for altid, da det afsløres, at hans beundrede onkel under dække af sin lægegerning bl.a har udnyttet familiens indianske husholderske seksuelt
A series of events in a small western town changes the lives of David Hayden, his sheriff father, his mother, and their Sioux housekeeper, as they discover the truth about family loyalty.
Montana 1948
"From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years...
This tale of lost innocence and adulthood gained has its roots in the events of summer, 1948.
"Il faudra désormais ajouter ce Montana 1948 à la liste de ces petits livres qu'on se refile entre amis sûrs.
" So begins David Hayden's story of what happened in Montana in 1948.
Une vérité qui dérange est préférable à un mensonge qui rassure.