Grand Avenue : a novel in stories
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Bibliographic Information
Grand Avenue : a novel in stories
（American Indian literature and critical studies series / Gerald Vizenor and Louis Owens, general editors, v. 65）
University of Oklahoma Press, 2015
- : pbk
Available at 3 libraries
Note
"Paperback edition published 2015"--T.p. verso
Contents of Works
- The magic pony
- The progress of this disease
- Slaughterhouse
- Waiting for the green frog
- Joy ride
- How I got to be queen
- Sam Toms's last song
- The Indian maid
- Secret letters
- The water place
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Grand Avenue runs through the center of the Northern California town of Santa Rosa. One stretch of it is home not only to Pomo Indians making a life outside the reservation but also to Mexicans, blacks, and some Portuguese, all trying to find their way among the many obstacles in their turbulent world.
Bound together by a lone ancestor, the lives of the American Indians form the core of these stories - tales of healing cures, poison, family rituals, and a humor that allows the inhabitants of Grand Avenue to see their own foibles with a saving grace.
A teenage girl falls in love with a crippled horse marked for slaughter. An aging healer summons her strength for one final song. A father seeks a bond with his illegitimate son. A mother searches for the power to care for her cancer-stricken daughter's spirit. Here is a tapestry of lives rendered with the color, wisdom, and a quest for meaning that are characteristic of the traditional storytelling in which they are rooted, a tradition Sarris grew up hearing and learning. Vibrant with the emotions and realities of a changing world, these narratives - the basis of an HBO miniseries - are all equally stunning and from the heart.
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