an eighty-year-old Lakota woman living in a log cabin with no running water

and well before the tide of Scandinavian immigrants swept in

“The radiance of this many-faceted novel is generated by Erdrich’s tenderness for her characters…magnificent…a brilliantly imagined and constructed saga of empathy

A significant departure from traditional anthropological "as told to" American Indian autobiography

Wild rice has always been essential to life in the Upper Midwest and neighboring Canada

There Are Rivers in the Sky Métis an eighty-year-old Lakota woman livingIn the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives. In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a