The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood

The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early MotherhoodLouise Erdrichs first major work of nonfiction, the New York Times bestselling The Blue Jays Dance brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and insights, and the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions the author experienced in the course of one twelve month periodfrom a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to her return to writing in the fall. In exquisitely lyrical

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and a community where she can finally belong

the cousins need to find and return the missing bundle before the assembly comes to an end

celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages

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he cannot begin to imagine the eventual ramifications his brazen act will entail

he is working to change that—because clothes are never just clothes