For the characters we meet in Toni Jensen's stories, the past is
very much the present. Theirs are American Indian lives off the
reservation, lives lived beyond the usual boundaries set for
American Indian characters: migratory, often overlooked, yet
carrying tradition with them into a future of difference and
possibility. Drawing on American Indian oral traditions and her own
Metis upbringing, Jensen tells stories that mix many lives and
voices to offer fleeting perspectives on a world that reconfigures
the tragedy and disconnection often found in narratives of American
Indian life. A brother falls off the roof of an abandoned hotel, a
young bride tries to connect with a family she's never met, and an
adopted teenage girl seeks acceptance where she is viewed as an
outsider. The reader also encounters a kidnapped nephew, strangers
in a hotel, and even a stray dog: these are the souls that populate
Jensen's stories, finding tentative connections with the past, the
future, one another, and finally us.
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