a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life

“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

of memory and imagination

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and these poems illuminate the vital place of the author's tribe both in the past and within the contemporary world

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World science a bracingly honest look atAnimal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active