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Red Hen Press
- The Dead Go to Seattle
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
In an Alaskan island's oral traditions, a baby's cry cucks in the northern lights, a man marries a tree, the muskeg swallows a restaurant, and the dead go to Seattle: 42 linked tales in a story-cycle of life, death, and climate catastrophe in the frigid cold of Alaska.
Table of Contents
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- Letter of Transmittal
- pp. 1-2
- Introduction
- pp. 3-4
- Myths Recorded in English at Wrangell
- The Girl with Pink Hair
- pp. 7-19
- His Spirits Kept Turning Back
- pp. 20-22
- The Drowning Ceremony
- pp. 23-27
- The Man Who Married a Tree
- pp. 28-30
- A Boat Named Coffin
- pp. 35-36
- Old Men Who Speak of Bears
- pp. 37-41
- The Woman Who Married a Bear
- pp. 42-45
- The Girl Who Paid Attention
- pp. 46-50
- Wrangell Town Fire Story
- pp. 51-53
- The Boy Who Loved Sparks
- pp. 55-57
- In a Light Fantastic
- pp. 58-61
- A Blanket on the Sea
- pp. 62-64
- Deadmans Island
- pp. 65-68
- The Terrible Wild Children
- pp. 69-71
- Men’s Stories
- pp. 72-73
- The Woman in the Final Frontier
- pp. 74-76
- Escape from Planet Alaska
- pp. 77-78
- The Girl with Demons All Around
- pp. 79-80
- Girls with the Sun in Their Eyes
- pp. 81-86
- The Boy Who Shot the Star
- pp. 87-89
- Charlie Edwin’s Trapping Stories
- pp. 90-92
- Salmon Woman
- pp. 93-94
- The Man Who Saves the Dead
- pp. 95-105
- The First Assimilated Sámi in the World
- pp. 106-112
- The Switching Season
- pp. 113-116
- The Woman Who Governs the Tides
- pp. 124-134
- The Man Who Loved Indians
- pp. 135-152
- The Woman Who Kicked over a Frog
- pp. 153-156
- The Woman Who Shushed
- pp. 157-165
- Can I Touch Your Chinese Hair?
- pp. 166-169
- Big Jon Keats
- pp. 170-176
- The Man Who Saw the Light
- pp. 177-187
- The Girl with the Porcelain Face
- pp. 188-195
- Two-Spirited
- pp. 196-210
- Muskeg Swallows Restaurant
- pp. 211-216
- Year of the Fire Dragon
- pp. 217-222
- Daughter of the Tides
- pp. 223-227
- House Falling into the Sea
- pp. 228-236
- The Dead Man Who Swam Away
- pp. 237-242
- The Flood Story
- pp. 243-267
- Biographical Note
- p. 268
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597095822
Related ISBN(s)
9781597099042
MARC Record
OCLC
1012759097
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2017-11-29
Language
English
Open Access
No