Rainy Fields
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A young Native American boy in a splintering family grasps for stability and love, making all the wrong choices until he finds a space of his own"--
"Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father's injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her...
Author
Publisher
Bison Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
2022 High Plains Book Award Winner for First Book
2022 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List
2022 Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in Culture
2022 IPPY Gold Medal in Environment/Ecology
2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Regional Nonfiction
2022 Montaigne Medal Finalist
2021 Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for History
The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made headlines around...
2022 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List
2022 Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in Culture
2022 IPPY Gold Medal in Environment/Ecology
2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Regional Nonfiction
2022 Montaigne Medal Finalist
2021 Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for History
The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made headlines around...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for...