Submerged like a diving horse

What a masterful enticing prologue: a history of western civilization, complete with the European settlers' genocide of a great and noble native civilization, written in a breathtakingly illumanitive style that leaves you gasping for more. The short precise sentences as we immerse ourselves in the beginning chapters invite you to Two Feathers' show, introduce you to her new found family, and raise the ghost of Hemingway. I can't wait to devour the rest.