Quiet Until the Thaw
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 297 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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.
Series: Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice
Subjects:
Lakota Indians -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Twin brothers -- Fiction.
Red Power movement -- Fiction.
Cousins -- Fiction.
Ex-convicts -- Fiction.
Large type books.
South Dakota -- Fiction.
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- Fiction.
Lakota Indians -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Twin brothers -- Fiction.
Red Power movement -- Fiction.
Cousins -- Fiction.
Ex-convicts -- Fiction.
Large type books.
South Dakota -- Fiction.
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781432840426 (hardcover)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LPF Fuller | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Fiction | In |
LPF Fuller | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |