Description: Set on the Pine Ridge Reservation, An Endangered Species is a tale of two families, each with their own problems and failures, and both bound into circumstances beyond their control, surviving on the Great Plains during the 1960s.
Review Quotes: "Frances Washburn is a consummate storyteller. An Endangered Species, her newest book, is a poignant, tragic, and brilliant tale of two families, one Native and one white, trying to cope with changing times on the Northern Plains in the early 1960s. Washburn's forte is character development. The reader gets to know not only the time and place of the story, but also what makes her characters tick. The book is a masterwork of prose, rich in simile and active in voice. The story moves artfully to its final, surprising conclusion. It is indeed difficult to put down."--Tom Holm, author of Ira Hayes and The Osage Rose