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Noted: The Dance Boots
This collection of linked stories, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, portrays an Objibwe community struggling to follow a traditional way of life in the face of the relentlessly changing world.
Here’s a prepublication comment:
“In eight beautifully crafted Ojibwe stories, Grover’s characters, members of the LaForce family, learn to survive Indian boarding school, a brutal marriage, and even how to set pins in a bowling alley all the while taking care to remember the ancestors and the road home. Whether home is the mythic Mozhay Point Indian Reservation, a clapboard house, or a horse paradise of woods near Duluth, Minnesota, Grover’s The Dance Boots is an Ojibwe jingle dance that bounced me off the page, and back on again. A wonderful read!”—LeAnne Howe, author of Shell Shaker and Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story
The Dance Boots
Stories by Linda Legarde Grover
University of Georgia Press, Cloth, $24.95 ($16.47 at Amazon)
To order direct from the publisher: http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/dance_boots/
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