Books like House Made of Dawn
Abel, a young Native American veteran, returns from World War II to his grandfather's pueblo in New Mexico, unable to find his place there or later in Los Angeles, and searches for a way back to himself through ceremony and the land.
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Ceremony
Tayo, a young Laguna Pueblo man, comes home from the Second World War, where he was a prisoner of the Japanese, sick in body and spirit, and looks for healing in the old ceremonies.
Solar Storms
Angela Jensen, seventeen, scarred and raised in foster homes, comes back to the boundary waters between Minnesota and Canada to find the women of her family, as a dam project threatens their land.
Winter in the Blood
An unnamed young Blackfeet man drifts between his mother's ranch on the reservation and the bars of Montana towns, looking for the woman who took his rifle and for a reason to care.
The Bone People
Kerewin Holmes, a reclusive artist living alone in a tower on the South Island coast, finds a mute boy, Simon, in her house one night, and comes to know him and his Māori foster father, Joe.
The English Patient
Four strangers take shelter in an Italian monastery at the end of World War II, and the intimacy of their convalescence becomes its own kind of war.
Tracks
In North Dakota between 1912 and 1924, as sickness and the loss of land pull the Ojibwe apart, Nanapush, an old man, and Pauline, a young woman of mixed blood, tell the story of Fleur Pillager, whom the lake spirit is said to protect.
There There
Twelve Native Americans converge on a powwow in Oakland, each carrying a private history of displacement, addiction, and the violence of being seen as invisible.
The Bluest Eye
A young Black girl in 1940s Ohio prays for blue eyes, and her wish exposes the way American beauty standards destroy the people they exclude.
A Mercy
In the early days of American slavery, a young woman sold from one master to another navigates a world where mercy is rare and freedom is an idea without language.
Housekeeping
Ruth and her younger sister Lucille, orphaned beside a glacial lake in Fingerbone, Idaho, are raised by their aunt Sylvie, a drifter who keeps house in her own strange way, and as Lucille chooses an ordinary life, Ruth drifts towards Sylvie's.
Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange widens There There across 150 years, from a survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre through an Indian boarding school to the Oakland family still reeling from the powwow shooting.
Split Tooth
A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s, through cruelty, alcohol and wonder, until the northern lights and the animals of the Arctic draw her into something mythic.