Between Earth and Sky (eBook)

Amanda Skenandore (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
304 Seiten
Kensington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4967-1367-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging in this poignant novel exploring the tragic legacy of forced assimilation and abuse at Native American residential schools in the early 20th century. The award-winning debut novel by the author ofThe Nurse's Secretis now available with new bonus content, including an interview with the woman who inspired it Amanda Skenandore's mother-in-law and a member the Lake Superior Ojibwe. On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harryor Asku, as Alma knew himwas the most promising student at the ';savage-taming' boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children of neighboring reservations. Instead, it robbed them of everything they'd knownlanguage, customs, even their namesand left a heartbreaking legacy in its wake. The bright, courageous boy Alma knew could never have murdered anyone. But she barely recognizes the man Asku has become, cold and embittered at being an outcast in the white world and a ghost in his own. Her lawyer husband, Stewart, reluctantly agrees to help defend Asku for Alma's sake. To do so, Alma must revisit the painful secrets she has kept hidden from everyoneespecially Stewart. Told in compelling narratives that alternate between Alma's childhood and her present life,Between Earth and Skyis a haunting and complex story of love and loss, as a quest for justice becomes a journey toward understanding and, ultimately, atonement.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 19th century • 20th century • african american authors best sellers • Alternate History • American • american historical fiction • American History • assimilation • best sellers list new york times • black authors best sellers • books for women • Bureau of Indian Affairs • Childhood • Coming of Age • coming of age novel • Drama • Fiction • fiction books • Flashback • Friendship • Historical • historical fiction • historical fiction books • historical fiction novels • historical mystery • Historical Novel • historical novels • Indian residential schools • indigenous fiction • Injustice • Literary • literary fiction • Love in the Time of Cholera • Mary Annette Pember • Medicine River • Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools • Mothers • Murder Mystery • murder trial • Mystery • Native American • Native American fiction • Native American History • native american novel • Native Americans • Novels • s fiction • Timely • Tragedy • treatment of native americans • turn of the century america • United States • Woman • Women • women&#39 • womens fiction • Women's Fiction
• ISBN-10: 1-4967-1367-2 / 1496713672
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4967-1367-4 / 9781496713674