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Empire of Wild
by Cherie Dimaline
What happens: A year after her husband Victor disappears following an argument, Joan Beausoleil encounters him at a tent revival, calling himself Reverend Wolff (and denying any knowledge of Victor).
But... Is it really him? A Canadian Métis elder believes he's been possessed by a rogarou; Joan comes to agree and determines to track the half-man, half-wolf creature and save her husband.
Read it for: suspenseful, haunting descriptions; immersion into the stories of the Métis Nation in Canada (the author is a member); an understanding of the threat the Métis are under by those who desire their land.
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The Night Watchman: A Novel
by Louise Erdrich
It is 1953. A historical novel based on the life of the National Book Award-winning author’s grandfather traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-19th-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty rights.
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Crooked Hallelujah
by Kelli Jo Ford
It's 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma: A first collection by an award-winning Cherokee writer traces four generations of Native American women as they navigate cultural dynamics, religious beliefs, the 1980s oil bust, devastating storms and unreliable men to connect with their ideas about home.
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Bone Black
by Carol Rose Goldeneagle
A novel, by multidisciplinary award-winning Cree artist, is a crucial work of fiction that tackles a horrifying reality. When Wren StrongEagle’s twin sister Raven goes missing, Wren—dismissed by police—follows media reports and seeks her sister and justice. Justice is a tricky thing, and as Wren goes deeper into a darkness she finds herself both guided by spirits and traditional Indigenous knowledge; and questioning, broken in grief.
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Where the Dead Sit Talking
by Brandon Hobson
Rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s: After his mother is jailed, a young Cherokee boy, Sequoyah, bonds with another Native American, Rosemary, in the foster home where they both have been placed and experienced deepening feelings for each other while dealing with the scars of their pasts.
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The Only Good Indians: A Novel
by Stephen Graham Jones
Gritty and gorgeous: A novel that blends classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives.
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This Town Sleeps
by Dennis E. Staples
What happens: Marion Lafournier, a young Ojibwe man in a relationship with a deeply closeted white man, follows the ghost of a dog to the grave of a local basketball star murdered ten years previously, launching him on a quest to find the truth -- and to repair ties within his own family.
Why you might like it: Wry humor and a nonlinear narrative distinguish Ojibwe author Dennis Staples' debut, which captures the crushing lack of options in his Minnesota reservation hometown from multiple perspectives.
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Winter Counts: A Novel
by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Author Debut: A vigilante enforcer on South Dakota's Rosebud Indian Reservation enlists the help of an ex to investigate the activities of an expanding drug cartel, while a new tribal council initiative raises controversial questions. .
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| Homeland Elegies by Ayad AkhtarWhat it is: a thought-provoking literary novel-in-stories about being Pakistani-American before and after 9/11, with clear parallels to the author's own life.
About the author: Ayad Akhtar is, like his protagonist, the son of Muslim immigrants from Pakistan and a Pulitzer-winning playwright known for a complex, controversial play about being Muslim-American after 9/11.
What reviewers say: It's "a provocative and urgent examination of the political and economic conditions that shape personal identity, especially for immigrants and communities of color" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| Sisters by Daisy JohnsonStarring: September and July, teen sisters who are perceived to be abnormally close by their teachers. After an incident so destructive that July, who helps narrate, cannot remember it, their mother moves them back to a tumbledown family home on England's North York Moors.
What happens: essentially abandoned by their mother, who is fighting her own demons, the relationship between the two girls shifts...but to say more would ruin this unsettling novel.
For fans of: dark, character-driven stories with overtones of Gothic fiction or horror. |
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Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist
by Jane Kirkpatrick
Based on true events: This historical tale follows the experiences of a mid-19th-century pioneer and mother of six who denies herself the joys of a simpler life to run a newspaper about women’s rights and lead suffrage efforts. Simultaneous.
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The Stone Wall
by Beverly Lewis
Beginning a new chapter in her life: Anna, a Lancaster County tour guide, researches her Alzheimer’s patient grandmother’s Plain heritage and the story behind a mysterious stone wall while confronting a difficult choice about her growing feelings for a handsome Mennonite and a young Amish widower.
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The London Restoration: A Novel
by Rachel McMillan
Set in post-World War II London: Determined to save their marriage and the city they love, two people changed by war rebuild their lives amidst the city's reconstruction.
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