Eventually fleeing his hometown, he began a life on the run. As a young boy, Lurie lost his father and began robbing graves. In Lurie's sections, he address his many adventures to his constant camel companion Burke. By interspersing her two protagonists' stories, the author disrupts conventional notions of linear historical accounts, broadening the reader's experience of her genre-bending tale. In the sections labeled with portions of the day, and marked with "Amargo, Arizona Territory, 1893," the author details the experiences and memories of Nora Lark through a third person point of view. In the sections titled with the names of cities or territories, the author writes from young adventurer Lurie Mattie's first person point of view, as he recalls to his camel, his many travels and discoveries across the deserts and plains. Téa Obreht crafts a complex tale of early American western migration and homesteading through alternating first person and third person narrative accounts. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Obreht, Téa.
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