Stories for a Lost Child (American Indian Studies) by Carter Meland

By Carter Meland

The summer season prior to going into highschool, Fiona gets a mysterious field within the mail, one who she hopes will resolution her questions about her Anishinaabe Indian background. It comprises tales written via the grandfather she by no means knew, an Anishinaabe guy her mom refuses to discuss. As she reads his tales approximately blackbirds and bigfoot, in addition to stories approximately Indians in house and homeless local males tenting by way of the river in Minneapolis, Fiona reveals different questions arising—questions approximately her grandfather and the studies that formed his tales, questions about her mother’s silence concerning the grandfather she by no means knew. Fiona’s wish to understand extra and her mother’s reluctance to percentage fire up sour emotions of anger and sadness that slowly remodel as she reads the tales right into a hotter knowing of the problems of kin, love, and the load of the past.

 

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