The road back to Sweetgrass a novel
Set in northern Minnesota, this novel follows a trio of American Indian women, from the 1970s to the present, observing their lives intersect on the fictional Mozhay Point reservation. Linda LeGarde Grover connects the sense of place with the experience of Native women who came of age during the day...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
2016.
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| Summary: | Set in northern Minnesota, this novel follows a trio of American Indian women, from the 1970s to the present, observing their lives intersect on the fictional Mozhay Point reservation. Linda LeGarde Grover connects the sense of place with the experience of Native women who came of age during the days of the federal termination policy and the struggle for tribal self-determination.</p> |
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| Physical Description: | 194 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780816699162 081669916X |
| Author Notes: | Linda LeGarde Grover is a member of the Bois Forte band of Ojibwe and associate professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. The Road Back to Sweetgrass has been awarded the Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award; Grover has also received the Flannery O'Conner Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, whose previous recipients include Ann Patchett, Anne Tyler, and Toni Morrison. |
