Stories for a Lost Child

Carter Meland (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

163 Seiten

2017
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61186-244-7 (ISBN)

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The summer before going into high school, Fiona receives a mysterious box in the mail, one that she hopes will answer her questions about her Anishinaabe Indian heritage. It contains stories written by the grandfather she never knew, an Anishinaabe man her mother refuses to talk about. As she reads his stories about blackbirds and bigfoot, as well as tales about Indians in space and homeless Native men camping by the river in Minneapolis, Fiona finds other questions arising—questions about her grandfather and the experiences that shaped his stories, questions about her mother’s silence regarding the grandfather she never knew. Fiona’s desire to know more and her mother’s reluctance to share stir up bitter feelings of anger and disappointment that slowly transform as she reads the stories into a warmer understanding of the difficulties of family, love, and the weight of the past.

Carter Meland writes, teaches, and lives in Minneapolis. His fiction has appeared in numerous literary reviews, including Yellow Medicine Review, Lake: Journal of Arts and Environment, Fiction Weekly, and Fiddleblack.

Part One. Inside the Box [Before Fiona could stop him] Part Two. Letters and Stories [Dear Fiona,] Swampbreath The Horse Chrysalis Warm Gravity Indians in Space, Episode One: No Horizon Drunk Camp Indians in Space, Episode Two: Event Horizon Feathertruth Tree Desire Kneel There Indians in Space, Episode Three: Blue Horizons Working the Edge Eveningstar Perfect Night Indians in Space, Episode Four: Dark Horizon The Lost Child Long Strides Blackbird Coffee Part Three. Putting Out the Light [His eyes in the lamplight] Part Four. Opening a Door [You want to know] Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	21.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	American Indian Studies
Verlagsort	East Lansing, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-61186-244-2 / 1611862442
ISBN-13	978-1-61186-244-7 / 9781611862447
Zustand	Neuware