where the lost wander by Amy Harmon
Once Upon a Book Club - May 2020
Historical Fiction
The opening scene of this wonderful novel is positively gut-wrenching and the following chapters which lay out the characters and their travels along the Oregon Trail only make it more so. 
But reading the journey of the May family and John Lowry brings to life the difficulties of the Oregon Trail and highlights the amazing strength of the people of the time.
Summary from Goodreads: The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart. John’s heritage gains them safe passage through hostile territory only to come between them as they seek to build a life together. When a horrific tragedy strikes, decimating Naomi’s family and separating her from John, the promises they made are all they have left. Ripped apart, they can’t turn back, they can’t go on, and they can’t let go. Both will have to make terrible sacrifices to find each other, save each other, and eventually…make peace with who they are.
Quotes: "I realize now that life is just a continual parting of the ways, some more painful than others."
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