Quiet until the thaw / Alexandra Fuller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, Alexandra, 1969- author.

Contributor:

Random House (Firm), publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lakota Indians--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.

Lakota Indians.

Indians of North America--Fiction.

Indians of North America.

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Cousins--Fiction.

Cousins.

Twin brothers--Fiction.

Twin brothers.

Red Power movement--Fiction.

Red Power movement.

Ex-convicts--Fiction.

Ex-convicts.

South Dakota--Fiction.

South Dakota.

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Fiction.

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.).

Lakota Indians--Social conditions.

South Dakota--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Fuller, Alexandra, 1969- (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[14], 269, [1] pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Press, 2017.

Summary:

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 have come before and will come behind. But when You Choose returns to the reservation after three decades behind bars, his anger manifests, forever disrupting the lives of Rick and the boys.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy signed by the author on title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Fuller, Alexandra, 1969- Quiet until the thaw.

ISBN:

9780735223349

0735223343

073522336X

9780735223363

OCLC:

960030808

Publisher Number:

40027280664