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The Kashpaws and the Lamartines, two Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, from the 1930s to the 1980s, told in many voices.
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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.
Buckeye
In the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio, on the day Germany surrenders in 1945, Margaret Salt, whose husband is away in the Navy, impulsively kisses Cal Jenkins in the hardware store, and that kiss shapes two families for decades.
The Night Watchman
A Turtle Mountain Chippewa night watchman fights to protect his community's rights against a 1950s congressional effort to terminate tribal sovereignty.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up between the city and the Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother's people have lived for generations, and as she grows older she traces her family back through slavery to the land's first people.
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.
The Most Fun We Ever Had
Marilyn and David Sorenson, still in love after forty years in their house outside Chicago, have four daughters who keep falling short of their parents' marriage, and in 2016 a teenage boy one of them gave up for adoption comes into their lives.
The Peasants
A year in the life of the village of Lipce, autumn to summer, centred on the rich widowed farmer Maciej Boryna, his marriage to the young beauty Jagna and his son Antek's fury.
Celestial Bodies
Three sisters in the Omani village of al-Awafi, Mayya, Asma and Khawla, marry and live through their country's changes, from the last years of slavery to the coming of oil money.
The Harafish
The saga of the al-Nagi family, generations of champions and villains who rise and fall as protectors of a Cairo alley, beginning with Ashur, a foundling raised by a blind sheikh.
Fall on Your Knees
On Cape Breton Island at the turn of the twentieth century, James Piper, a piano tuner, elopes with Materia, the young daughter of a Lebanese merchant, and they raise four daughters, the eldest of them, Kathleen, a gifted singer.
Cloudstreet
After the war, two working-class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, each struck by disaster, end up sharing a big rundown house on Cloud Street in Perth, for twenty years.
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.