Books like Green Grass, Running Water
Four very old Indians walk out of a mental hospital to fix the world, while the people of a small Alberta town head for the Sun Dance, and Coyote causes trouble.
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Mumbo Jumbo
In 1920s America a craze called Jes Grew sets people dancing, and PaPa LaBas, a Harlem houngan, races to find its lost sacred text before the Wallflower Order, an ancient society defending Western civilisation, can destroy it.
Son of a Trickster
Jared, a sixteen-year-old Haisla boy in Kitimat who sells weed cookies to pay the family's bills, starts seeing things that can't be real, and his mother may be a witch.
Monkey Beach
Lisamarie Hill, a young Haisla woman in Kitamaat, sets out by speedboat to look for her brother Jimmy, lost at sea, and remembers her family and the spirits she has seen since childhood.
The Broom of the System
A Cleveland switchboard operator searches for her great-grandmother, who has vanished from a nursing home with several other residents, while her boss courts her and her cockatiel starts preaching.
The Old Devils
Alun Weaver, a television personality who has made a career of being Welsh, comes home to South Wales with his wife Rhiannon, and old friends and old flames gather in the pubs.
J R
An eleven-year-old boy on Long Island, starting from a school trip to the stock exchange and working from a pay phone, builds a vast paper empire, told almost entirely in unattributed dialogue.
Chimera
Three linked novellas that retell old stories: Scheherazade's younger sister Dunyazade, Perseus in middle age, and Bellerophon trying to be a hero.
John Henry Days
A freelance junket writer covers a 1996 West Virginia festival for a John Henry postage stamp, while the novel roams across a century of people who sang, studied and sold the legend.
Praiseworthy
In the small northern town of Praiseworthy, under a haze cloud that won't lift, Cause Man Steel dreams of moving goods across a warming world by donkey, while his son Tommyhawk dreams of a white future.
Carpentaria
In the Gulf Country town of Desperance, Normal Phantom, an Aboriginal elder and fisherman, his estranged son Will and the town's feuding families face a mining company and a cyclone.
A Frolic of His Own
Oscar Crease, a middle-aged college teacher and would-be playwright, is suing a Hollywood studio for stealing his play about his grandfather in the Civil War, and soon he is suing almost everyone.
Skinny Legs and All
A can of beans, a dirty sock, a painted stick, and the Dance of the Seven Veils become vehicles for a novel about religion, art, politics, and the third eye.