Books like 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.
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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.
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.
Beautiful Losers
A Montreal folklorist mourning his wife writes about the seventeenth-century Mohawk saint Kateri Tekakwitha and about F., his friend, mentor and his wife's lover, in Cohen's wild, explicit second novel.
House of Day, House of Night
A woman settles in a village in the Sudeten mountains on the Polish-Czech border and gathers the stories of her neighbours, its saints and its dead.
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.
Indian Horse
Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibwe man in a treatment centre for alcoholics, goes back over his childhood, his years in a residential school and the hockey that saved him for a while.
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.
The Whale Rider
In a Māori community on the east coast of New Zealand, Kahu, great-granddaughter of the chief, wants to lead, but he wants only a boy, and whales are stranding on the beach.
The Man with the Compound Eyes
As a vast island of rubbish crashes into the east coast of Taiwan, Alice, a grieving academic, meets Atile'i, a young man from a mythical island who arrived on it.
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.
The Storyteller
A Peruvian writer in Florence sees a photograph of storytellers in the Amazon and thinks of his old university friend Saúl Zuratas, who became obsessed with the Machiguenga people.
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.