Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Linda LeGarde Grover is author of many books, including the novels The Road Back to Sweetgrass and In the Night of Memory, both set on the fictional Mozhay Point Ojibwe Reservation; the poetry collection The Sky Watched; and the nonfiction books Onigamiising and Gichigami Hearts, all published by the University of Minnesota Press. She is professor emerita of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe.
<p> "A sprawling, poignant chronicle of struggle and survivance."-<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></p><p>"With its powerful, atmospheric descriptions of the natural world, <i>A Song over Miskwaa Rapids</i> resembles an Indigenous family saga in miniature, couching memory and mystery in a potent spirit world."-<i>Foreword Reviews</i></p><p>"In this intimate and suspenseful novel, Grover explores the complex evolving relationship between a place and the people who inhabit it."-<i>Electric Literature</i></p><p>"I learned deep respect for how Grover deepens and reveals the links between the ancient world and the current one. Her plotting is deft, with splashes of humor to lighten her serious examination of current politics and environmental concerns. This is a wise and fun story to read, propelled forward by Grover's deft pacing and real literary gifts. She is a great storyteller."-<i>Chronicle Journal</i></p><p>"Grover writes with intentionality and grace as she examines ancestry, autonomy and survivance."-<i>Ms. Magazine</i></p><p> "The characters and circumstances described in the book were believable and noteworthy. LeGarde Grover unfolded a story about the Ojibwe people with the elegance of a remarkable storyteller."-<i>UP Book Review</i></p><p>"Filled with gripping prose, <i>A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids</i> is an engaging and thought-provoking read."-<i>Northern Wilds</i></p><p>"Like the birds that wake and sing the memories of our lands and lives, this novel plays over and over in my mind." - <i>Tribal College Journal</i></p><p>"Grover cleverly blurs the line between the living and the dead by having elders who have passed watch and comment on events as they unfold in the present." - <i>Booklist</i></p>
A fifty-year-old mystery converges with a present-day struggle over family, land, and history-now available in paperback
When a rock is dislodged from its slope by mischievous ancestors, the past rises to meet the present, and Half-Dime Hill gives up a gruesome secret it has kept for half a century. Some people of Mozhay Point have theories about what happened; others know-and the discovery stirs memories long buried, reviving a terrible story yet to be told.
Returning to the fictional Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota she has so deftly mapped in her award-winning books, Linda LeGarde Grover reveals traumas old and new as Margie Robineau, in the midst of a fight to keep her family’s long-held allotment land, uncovers events connected to a long-ago escape plan across the Canadian border, and the burial-at once figurative and painfully real-of not one crime but two. While Margie is piecing the facts together, Dale Ann is confronted by her own long-held secrets and the truth that the long ago and the now, the vital and the departed are all indelibly linked, no matter how much we try to forget.
As the past returns to haunt those involved, Margie prepares her statement for the tribal government, defending her family’s land from a casino development and sorting the truths of Half-Dime Hill from the facts that remain there. Throughout the narrative, a chorus of spirit women gather in lawn chairs with coffee and cookies to reminisce, reflect, and speculate, spinning the threads of family, myth, history, and humor-much as Grover spins another tale of Mozhay Point, weaving together an intimate and complex novel of a place and its people.
Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.
Contents
Niijiwag gaye Indinawemaaganag
Waking Song
Part I. Naanoomaya, 2022
Half-Dime Hill
The Scattering
Part II. Mewinzhaa, 1972
The Dionne Fork
Bekaa Boweting
The Etienne Store
Part III. Noongoom, 2022
The LaForce Allotment
Ishpiming (Heaven)
Opiichii Nagamo Minawaa
<p> "A sprawling, poignant chronicle of struggle and survivance."-<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></p><p>"With its powerful, atmospheric descriptions of the natural world, <i>A Song over Miskwaa Rapids</i> resembles an Indigenous family saga in miniature, couching memory and mystery in a potent spirit world."-<i>Foreword Reviews</i></p><p>"In this intimate and suspenseful novel, Grover explores the complex evolving relationship between a place and the people who inhabit it."-<i>Electric Literature</i></p><p>"I learned deep respect for how Grover deepens and reveals the links between the ancient world and the current one. Her plotting is deft, with splashes of humor to lighten her serious examination of current politics and environmental concerns. This is a wise and fun story to read, propelled forward by Grover's deft pacing and real literary gifts. She is a great storyteller."-<i>Chronicle Journal</i></p><p>"Grover writes with intentionality and grace as she examines ancestry, autonomy and survivance."-<i>Ms. Magazine</i></p><p> "The characters and circumstances described in the book were believable and noteworthy. LeGarde Grover unfolded a story about the Ojibwe people with the elegance of a remarkable storyteller."-<i>UP Book Review</i></p><p>"Filled with gripping prose, <i>A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids</i> is an engaging and thought-provoking read."-<i>Northern Wilds</i></p><p>"Like the birds that wake and sing the memories of our lands and lives, this novel plays over and over in my mind." - <i>Tribal College Journal</i></p><p>"Grover cleverly blurs the line between the living and the dead by having elders who have passed watch and comment on events as they unfold in the present." - <i>Booklist</i></p>
A fifty-year-old mystery converges with a present-day struggle over family, land, and history-now available in paperback
When a rock is dislodged from its slope by mischievous ancestors, the past rises to meet the present, and Half-Dime Hill gives up a gruesome secret it has kept for half a century. Some people of Mozhay Point have theories about what happened; others know-and the discovery stirs memories long buried, reviving a terrible story yet to be told.
Returning to the fictional Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota she has so deftly mapped in her award-winning books, Linda LeGarde Grover reveals traumas old and new as Margie Robineau, in the midst of a fight to keep her family’s long-held allotment land, uncovers events connected to a long-ago escape plan across the Canadian border, and the burial-at once figurative and painfully real-of not one crime but two. While Margie is piecing the facts together, Dale Ann is confronted by her own long-held secrets and the truth that the long ago and the now, the vital and the departed are all indelibly linked, no matter how much we try to forget.
As the past returns to haunt those involved, Margie prepares her statement for the tribal government, defending her family’s land from a casino development and sorting the truths of Half-Dime Hill from the facts that remain there. Throughout the narrative, a chorus of spirit women gather in lawn chairs with coffee and cookies to reminisce, reflect, and speculate, spinning the threads of family, myth, history, and humor-much as Grover spins another tale of Mozhay Point, weaving together an intimate and complex novel of a place and its people.
Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.
Contents
Niijiwag gaye Indinawemaaganag
Waking Song
Part I. Naanoomaya, 2022
Half-Dime Hill
The Scattering
Part II. Mewinzhaa, 1972
The Dionne Fork
Bekaa Boweting
The Etienne Store
Part III. Noongoom, 2022
The LaForce Allotment
Ishpiming (Heaven)
Opiichii Nagamo Minawaa
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Linda LeGarde Grover is author of many books, including the novels The Road Back to Sweetgrass and In the Night of Memory, both set on the fictional Mozhay Point Ojibwe Reservation; the poetry collection The Sky Watched; and the nonfiction books Onigamiising and Gichigami Hearts, all published by the University of Minnesota Press. She is professor emerita of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe.