Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors language revitalization ―Maggie Nelson

―Maggie Nelson

An unforgettable debut

the magical with the real

“A masterpiece…a captivating work of fiction…exquisite…tightly focused…arresting…This profoundly tragic novel captures that lament in some of Erdrich’s most beautiful and urgent writing

Ontario—flow down into Chippewas of the Thames

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors language revitalization ―Maggie NelsonFor more than three decades, Louise Erdrich has enthralled readers with dazzling novels that paint an evocative portrait of Native American life. In Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country, Erdrich takes us on an illuminating tour through the terrain her ancestors have inhabited for centuries: the lakes and islands of southern Ontario. Summoning to life the Ojibwe's sacred spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, she considers the many ways in which