The Road Back to Sweetgrass

The Road Back to SweetgrassSet in northern Minnesota, The Road Back to Sweetgrass follows Dale Ann, Theresa, and Margie, a trio of American Indian women, from the 1970s to the present, observing their coming of age and the intersection of their lives as they navigate love, economic hardship, loss, and changing family dynamics on the fictional Mozhay Point reservation. As young women, all three leave their homes. Margie and Theresa go to Duluth for college and work; there

complemented by unflinching third-person narration

The bounty of the region’s lakes and streams—walleye

has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye

and he depicts the astonishing success of the language program at Lac Courte Oreilles

Throughout 2016

game and fish

and speak the Dakota dialect

"This Town Sleeps is an utterly strange and compelling book

Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary—but no Native women

from observations of the natural world and human connection to poems centered in powerful grief and remembrance for events spanning from the Sandy Lake Tragedy of 1850

Jacklight and Baptism of Desire

Frustrated by the building chaos