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Genre/Form: | Fiction Minnesota literature (Fiction) |
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Additional Physical Format: | ebook version : |
Named Person: | A Andrae |
Material Type: | Fiction, Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Linda LeGarde Grover |
ISBN: | 9780816692699 0816692696 9780816699162 081669916X |
OCLC Number: | 877365099 |
Awards: | Short-listed for Northeastern Minnesota Book Award (Fiction) 2014 |
Description: | 194 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | The odissimaa bag -- Bezhig : the frybread makers. The power of frybread ; In her dream, Margie ; The art of dressing a rabbit -- Niizh : termination days. Shades of Through the looking glass ; The veil in the jar -- Nisswi : the wild ricers. Margie-enjiss ; Animoosh ; The ar-bee-see -- Niiwi : Migwechiwendam. Enchanted Agwaching ; The occasional scent of sweetgrass. |
Responsibility: | Linda LeGarde Grover. |
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"The overall theme of longing and belonging affects us all, and in this story Linda brings us into the grand circle." -Lake Superior Magazine "The events that define these characters and their world, the births and deaths and binding loves, unfold with gentle pathos and wry humor, the cadences of minute detail and the sweep of history a matter of quiet confidence and unshowy grace for this gifted storyteller." -Star Tribune "At heart this is the story of the women's longing for home, with traditions of pow-wows, fancy dancing and wild ricing, and of coming of age when the Anishinaabe struggled to preserve their culture in a changing world." -St. Paul Pioneer Press "Through the character of Margie Robineau, Linda LeGarde Grover has created an Ojibwe everywoman who not only births a daughter Crystal, but also revitalizes the small township of Sweetgrass by making family with her would be father-in-law. Grover's novel tackles genealogy and kinship, Indian allotment and traditions, and ultimately love. A gorgeous read, an extraordinary novel!" -LeAnne Howe, author of Shell Shaker "History, humanity and humor-these things always impress me when I read Linda LeGarde Grover's fiction. In this deeply moving and healing book, we are drawn into a communally told story that shows generations violently separated yet held together by the cord of place and culture and by many, many acts of love." -Heid E. Erdrich, author of Original Local "With the grace of a dancer lifted by spirit and grounded in the well-worn earth beneath her feet, Linda LaGarde Grover tells a circular tale of life on and off the Reservation. Generous, ironic, and often gut-wrenching, The Road Back to Sweetgrass is at its large heart a book about the power of home and the inexorable connections between land, people, and stories." -Danielle Sosin, author of The Long-Shining Waters Read more...


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- Andrae, A.
- Indian women -- North America -- Fiction.
- Indians of North America -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
- Indian reservations -- Fiction.
- Ojibwa Indians -- Fiction.
- Minnesota -- Fiction.
- FICTION -- General.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
- Indian reservations.
- Indian women.
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- Ojibwa Indians.
- Minnesota.
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