Quiet until the thaw

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Alexandra Fuller: Quiet until the thaw (2017)

269 pages

English language

Published 2017

ISBN:
978-0-7352-2334-9
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OCLC Number:
960030808

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"From bestselling memoirist Alexandra Fuller, a debut novel. Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger towards the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota people by the federal government leads to tribal divisions and infighting, the cousins go in separate directions: Rick chooses the path of peace; You Choose, violence. Years pass, and as You Choose serves time in prison, Rick finds himself raising twin baby boys, orphaned at birth, in his meadow. As the twins mature from infants to young men, Rick immerses the boys within their ancestry, telling wonderful and terrible tales of how the whole world came to be, and affirming their place in the universe as the result of all who …

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Subjects

  • Lakota Indians
  • Social life and customs
  • Indians of North America
  • Cousins
  • Fathers and sons
  • Fiction