Books like 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.
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Love Medicine
The Kashpaws and the Lamartines, two Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, from the 1930s to the 1980s, told in many voices.
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.
The Waters
On an island in a Michigan swamp lives Hermine Zook, an old herbalist the town calls Herself, who cures men's ailments, and the lives of her three daughters and her small granddaughter, Dorothy, play out in the town across the water.
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.
Men of Maize
In the highlands of Guatemala, Gaspar Ilóm leads his Mayan people against the ladino farmers burning the forest to plant maize for profit, and the story spreads into myth.
Drowning Ruth
In 1919 Amanda Starkey leaves her nursing job in Milwaukee for the family farm on a Wisconsin lake, and after her sister drowns there one winter night, she raises her niece, Ruth, under a cloud of secrets.
The White Girl
In a small Australian country town in the 1960s, Odette Brown, an Aboriginal grandmother raising her granddaughter Sissy, sees the new policeman taking an interest in the girl's fair skin.
Confession of the Lioness
In Kulumani, a village in northern Mozambique, lions are killing women, and Archangel Bullseye, a hunter from the city, is sent to kill them, while Mariamar, whose sister was the latest victim, tells her own story.
Song of Solomon
Milkman Dead, the son of the richest Black family in a Michigan town, travels south in search of hidden gold and finds instead the story of his family and of an ancestor who could fly.
Benang
Harley, a young Noongar man whose white grandfather set out to breed the Aboriginality out of the family, floats in the air as he tells his family's history in Western Australia.
The Antidote
In a Nebraska wheat town during the 1935 dust storms, a prairie witch who takes in her neighbours' secrets and memories loses all of them in a single black blizzard, and her fate tangles with a debt-ridden farmer, his orphaned niece and a New Deal photographer.
Primeval and Other Times
The village of Primeval, guarded at its four borders by archangels, lives through the twentieth century, from the First World War into the 1980s, as its people and its spirits keep their own time.