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Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

Catherine — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:31:23 +0000

And it’s inside myself that I must create someone who will understand. In the midst of the 1864 Colorado Sand Creek massacre of the Cheyenne a Native boy is able to escape. After years of wandering, he finds himself in Nevada where he’s told he can go to a mission for food and shelter. He […]

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The Berry Pickers: A Novel

Catherine — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:24:44 +0000

For one Mi’kmaq family summers in Maine have always been about sunshine, campfires, and reunions with old friends amidst long days of picking blueberries as migrant workers. Until 1962 when Ruthie, their youngest daughter, disappears, irrevocably changing the lives of the two main characters in Amanda Peters’ stunning debut The Berry Pickers. For Joe it […]

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Indian Horse: A Novel

Catherine — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 08:15:14 +0000

I love discovering new writers, the voices of people with stories I’ve never imagined. In the past two years I’ve been fortunate to read more from Native American authors like Tommy Orange and Oscar Hokeah, with their singular style. I can now add Richard Wagamese to this list. A Canadian writer and member of the […]

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Calling for a Blanket Dance

Catherine — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 04:18:30 +0000

In a desperate attempt to save her marriage, Turtle packs up her 6-month-old son, Ever, finds her drunk husband, Everardo, loads him into the car and leaves Oklahoma for Mexico. Her plan is to reunite Everardo with the mother he hasn’t seen in a decade in the hope she’ll pressure him into living up to […]

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Firekeeper’s Daughter: A Novel

Catherine — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 05:49:45 +0000

As a biracial member of the Ojibwe tribe Daunis Fontaine lives in the uncomfortable in-between space of not belonging to any one community. What bought her acceptance from everyone were her incredible skills as a hockey player. After graduating high school she was looking forward to a bright future as a player at the University […]

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Crooked Hallelujah

Catherine — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:13:06 +0000

Texas and Oklahoma, during the 1970s and 1980s oil boom and bust, is the setting for Crooked Hallelujah, a debut novel about the lives of three generations of Cherokee women. Lula is the matriarch, Justine her daughter, and Reney her grand-daughter. The times were difficult, but even more so if you were a Native American […]

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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Catherine — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:53:47 +0000

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There There by Tommy Orange

Catherine — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 07:58:45 +0000

One of the downsides of reading a lot is the feeling that, while you still enjoy most of what you read, some of it tends to sound familiar—as if you’ve read it before. Which is not unreasonable, as ‘how many truly distinct plots there are in fiction’ is a subject of debate even among critics. […]

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