Impatient with desire : a novel /
Gabrielle Burton.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Hyperion, c2010.
- 248 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
"Voice."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-246).
A fictionalized account of the Donner Party tragedy told through the journal entries and letters of Tamsen Donner, the wife of George Donner, the leader of the party that, in 1846, set out for California and wound up trapped for four months in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.