A grandmother begins the story / Michelle Porter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porter, Michelle, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Métis women--Fiction.

Métis women.

Bison--Fiction.

Bison.

Intergenerational relations--Fiction.

Intergenerational relations.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Grandmothers--Fiction.

Grandmothers.

Sisters--Fiction.

Sisters.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Genre:

Magic realist fiction.

Historical fiction.

Fiction

Novels

Domestic fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

322 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.

Summary:

Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and rebuild their futures. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means. Allie, Carter's mother, is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother. Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her join her ancestors in the Afterlife. And Geneviève is determined to conquer her demons before the fire inside burns her up, with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without. Meanwhile, Mamé, in the Afterlife, knows that all their stories began with her; she must find a way to cut herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find their own paths forward.

ISBN:

9781643755182

1643755188

OCLC:

1372391609