Quiet until the thaw
(Large Print)
Author
Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Large print edition.
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Port Angeles - Large Print Fiction | LP FULLER Alex | Checked Out | March 26, 2024 |
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"A novel"--Cover.
General Note
"Author of Don't let's go to the dogs tonight and Leaving before the rains come"--Cover.
Description
Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger towards the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota people by the federal government leads to tribal divisions and infighting, the cousins go in separate directions: Rick chooses the path of peace; You Choose, violence. Years pass, and as You Choose serves time in prison, Rick finds himself raising twin baby boys, orphaned at birth, in his meadow. As the twins mature from infants to young men, Rick immerses the boys within their ancestry, telling wonderful and terrible tales of how the whole world came to be, and affirming their place in the universe as the result of all who have come before and will come behind. But when You Choose returns to the reservation after three decades behind bars, his anger manifests, forever disrupting the lives of Rick and the boys.