The Redemption of Thomas Has His Horse

Imagine the worse thing you could do. How far would you go to redeem yourself? THE REDEMPTION OF THOMAS HAS HIS HORSE is the story of a half-Sioux, half-African-American man born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1918 ~ and his struggle to atone for a terrible act. Beloved of the Spirits and pride of his Grandmother Grace, his Great-Uncle Owen begins training him from a young age to become the family's next medicine man. But when a series of foolhardy choices leads to such a catastrophic event that even his devoted grandmother urges him to run, 19-year-old Thomas must flee his home in the Badlands, never to return. After a lonely, arduous trek through the heart of the 1930's dust bowl, Thomas finds improbable sanctuary in a tiny little town in the Texas Hill Country. For 25 years, the black Indian lives in self-imposed exile amid white townsfolk who believe that he is nothing more than a half-witted, colored helper at the local grocery store. Then one hot summer day in 1962, the Spirits suddenly come calling again ~ and Thomas begins a journey of redemption that spans more than three decades, and reverberates from his room in the back of the Hill Country store to a psychiatric hospital in lower Manhattan, where Dr. Anna Johannsen uses unorthodox methods with unprecedented success to repair the shattered lives of child torture victims. But when a Catholic nun asks the gifted psychiatrist to take the horrific case of 10-year-old Oscar Werner, the doctor runs up against a wall of ancient evil and turns to Thomas Has His Horse for help ~ and the 80-year-old man must summon all of the power that is in him to save the child and his doctor.