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A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids by Linda LeGarde Grover
A fifty-year-old mystery converges with a present-day struggle over family, land, and history-now available in paperback
When a rock is dislodged from its slope by mischievous ancestors, the past rises to meet the present, and Half-Dime Hill gives up a gruesome secret it has kept for half a century. Some people of Mozhay Point have theories about what happened; others know-and the discovery stirs memories long buried, reviving a terrible story yet to be told.
Returning to the fictional Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota she has so deftly mapped in her award-winning books, Linda LeGarde Grover reveals traumas old and new as Margie Robineau, in the midst of a fight to keep her family's long-held allotment land, uncovers events connected to a long-ago escape plan across the Canadian border, and the burial-at once figurative and painfully real-of not one crime but two. While Margie is piecing the facts together, Dale Ann is confronted by her own long-held secrets and the truth that the long ago and the now, the vital and the departed are all indelibly linked, no matter how much we try to forget.
As the past returns to haunt those involved, Margie prepares her statement for the tribal government, defending her family's land from a casino development and sorting the truths of Half-Dime Hill from the facts that remain there. Throughout the narrative, a chorus of spirit women gather in lawn chairs with coffee and cookies to reminisce, reflect, and speculate, spinning the threads of family, myth, history, and humor-much as Grover spins another tale of Mozhay Point, weaving together an intimate and complex novel of a place and its people.
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About the Author: Linda LeGarde Grover is author of many books, including the novels The Road Back to Sweetgrass and In the Night of Memory, both set on the fictional Mozhay Point Ojibwe Reservation; the poetry collection The Sky Watched; and the nonfiction books Onigamiising and Gichigami Hearts, all published by the University of Minnesota Press. She is professor emerita of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe.
Number of pages | 128 |
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