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Love To Water My Soul
(2008)
This story, as Kirkpatrick describes it, is woven with two strands. The first strand is the dramatic adventure and love story behind her husband's blended white and American Indian heritage. The second strand is a carefully researched histroy of the disastrous effects of white settlement on Oregon Indians, notably the Paiute tribe, in the early 1900's.
The book also includes a third strand, which is Kirkpatrick's own rich imagination that transforms a most ususual family background into a novel about the universal quest for identity and purpose. The three strands join to form a sensitive tale.
Kirkpatrick recounts the story of her husband's great-great-grandmother, who at about age 6 was separated from her family as they moved westward ... the child being rescued and enslaved, nurtured and threatened by Indians ... [This is] the story of her life, which is marked by daring escapes, many humoroius and tender moments and an evolving quest to find her place in the world.
~Faris Cassell, Eugene Register-Guard
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Reviews
"Impossible to put down...authentically characterizes this book both historically and spiritually. Kirkpatrick's prose is chiseled in graphic wrenching images that draw one into the story and engage one's senses."
--Persimmon Hill magazine, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
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