A Calm & Normal Heart
Stories
Los Angeles, CA : The Unnamed Press, [2022], ©2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 180 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
"From Oklahoma to California, the many heroes of [this collection of short stories] ... are bound by a common desire for connection and safety--inside a nation in which they have always lived but do not entirely belong. A member of the Osage tribe, author Chelsea T. Hicks' stories are compelled by an overlooked diaspora happening inside the borders of the United States itself: that of young Native people"--Flap page 1 of dust jacket.
Contents:
Author's note -- Tsexope -- A fresh start -- By Alcatraz -- Superdrunk -- Brother -- A small urge -- Wets'a -- My kind of woman -- The wife -- Full tilt -- House of RGB -- The good medicine of the light.
Subjects:
Indian youth -- United States -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Fiction.
Indian youth -- United States -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
1951213548
Title page, dust jacket, chapter title pages and page 3 include text in the Wazhazhe ie language, the language of the Wazhazhe people.