![]() The father, however, is abusive and a drunk, so no one is upset when he disappears. They’re fortunate enough to own their own home and rent out the basement to a family. Lutie and Helen are sisters, an advertising illustrator for a specialized clothing story and a nurse, respectively. Dallas has done her research and does an excellent job of slipping in facts to give us a sense of place and time without disrupting the story. The government tries to downplay the risk of the flu and rumors abound of what causes it - eating Spanish food, listening in on the party line. WWI rages and the Spanish influenza is gaining steam. The mother of two daughters-Dana is an attorney in New Orleans and Povy is a photographer in Golden, Colorado-Sandra lives in Denver with her husband, Bob. Award, and a four-time finalist for the Women Writing the West Willa Award. In addition, she was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Assn. Sandra is the recipient of the Women Writing the West Willa Award for New Mercies, and two-time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award, for The Chili Queen and Tallgrass. Turning to fiction in 1990, Sandra has published eight novels, including Prayers For Sale. They include Sacred Paint, which won the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Wrangler Award, and The Quilt That Walked to Golden, recipient of the Independent Publishers Assn. While a reporter, she began writing the first of ten nonfiction books. Many of her experiences have been incorporated into her novels. A staff member for twenty-five years (and the magazine’s first female bureau chief,) she covered the Rocky Mountain region, writing about everything from penny-stock scandals to hard-rock mining, western energy development to contemporary polygamy. Sandra’s novels with their themes of loyalty, friendship, and human dignity have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and have been optioned for films.Ī journalism graduate of the University of Denver, Sandra began her writing career as a reporter with Business Week. Set against the backdrop of an epidemic that feels all too familiar, Little Souls is a compelling tale of sisterhood and of the sacrifices people make to protect those they love most.Īward-winning author SANDRA DALLAS was dubbed “a quintessential American voice” by Jane Smiley, in Vogue Magazine. Meanwhile Lutie also worries about her fiancé “over there.” As it happens, his wealthy mother harbors a secret of her own and helps the sisters as the danger deepens, from both the murder investigation and the outbreak. They decide to leave the body in the street, hoping to disguise it as a flu victim. She has no doubt Helen killed the man―Dorothy’s father―in self-defense, but she knows that will be hard to prove. Soon after, Lutie comes home from work and discovers a dead man on their kitchen floor and Helen standing above the body, an icepick in hand. When their tenant dies from the flu, the sisters are thrust into caring for the woman’s small daughter, Dorothy. They make a modest income from a rental apartment in the basement. Helen, a nurse, and Lutie, a carefree advertising designer at a fashionable women’s store share a small, neat house, and each finds a local beau―for Helen a doctor, for Lutie a young student who soon enlists. Sisters Helen and Lutie have moved to Denver from Iowa after their parents’ deaths. With the Spanish Flu rampant, Denver’s schools are converted into hospitals, churches and funeral homes are closed, and horse-drawn wagons collect corpses left in the street. World War I is raging overseas, but it’s the home front battling for survival. Sandra Dallas's Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver amid America’s last deadly flu pandemic.Ĭolorado, 1918.
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