Loren Woodson

Far Stones Loren Woodson

Eleven-year-old African American twins Tom and Stefan are coping with frontier life in 1860s Texas when they are suddenly separated by a Comanche Indian raid. Far Stones tells of Tom's harsh assimilation into Comanche life, while Stefan encounters the brutal realities of slavery during the Civil War and confronts its legacy afterwards. Throughout the years on their disparate paths, each brother clings in his own way to the nascent sport of baseball, and in so doing endures to reach adulthood in his respective American culture. Far Stones paints a portrait of Comanche life in a pivotal time, as the US government seeks to force the proud nomadic people to give up their way of life and move onto a reservation. Captured brother Tom succeeds in his new life as an Indian and is accepted into the tribe just when the Comanche ways are fundamentally threatened. Once a free man, Stefan searches for his brother with the help of the Buffalo soldiers, while fearing for Tom's life. And if Stefan finds him, will their shared love of baseball be enough to bridge their vast cultural divide?