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- Stories for a Lost Child
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
- Series: American Indian Studies
summary
The summer before going into high school, Fiona receives a mysterious box in the mail, one that she hopes will answer her questions about her Anishinaabe Indian heritage. It contains stories written by the grandfather she never knew, an Anishinaabe man her mother refuses to talk about. As she reads his stories about blackbirds and bigfoot, as well as tales about Indians in space and homeless Native men camping by the river in Minneapolis, Fiona finds other questions arising—questions about her grandfather and the experiences that shaped his stories, questions about her mother’s silence regarding the grandfather she never knew. Fiona’s desire to know more and her mother’s reluctance to share stir up bitter feelings of anger and disappointment that slowly transform as she reads the stories into a warmer understanding of the difficulties of family, love, and the weight of the past.
Table of Contents
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- Part One. Inside the Box
- [Before Fiona could stop him]
- pp. 3-14
- Part Two. Letters and Stories
- [Dear Fiona,]
- pp. 17-26
- Swampbreath
- pp. 27-28
- The Horse Chrysalis
- pp. 29-36
- Warm Gravity
- pp. 37-38
- Drunk Camp
- pp. 40-55
- Feathertruth
- pp. 59-60
- Tree Desire
- p. 61
- Kneel There
- pp. 62-63
- Working the Edge
- pp. 68-72
- Eveningstar
- p. 73
- Perfect Night
- p. 74
- The Lost Child
- pp. 81-100
- Long Strides
- p. 101
- Blackbird Coffee
- pp. 102-104
- Part Three. Putting Out the Light
- [His eyes in the lamplight]
- pp. 107-142
- Part Four. Opening a Door
- [You want to know]
- pp. 145-154
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 155-157
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609175269
Related ISBN(s)
9781611862447, 9781628952964, 9781628962963
MARC Record
OCLC
968310942
Pages
163
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-27
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017