Designs of the Night Sky

Diane Glancy is a professor of English at Macalester College. She is the author of The Cold-and-Hunger Dance and won the North American Indian Prose Award for Claiming Breath (Nebraska 1992).

• Preface; Acknowledgments The Library; Greasy Gravy; Paragraphs; There Were the Old Days of the Indian Removal; A Call; Encampment; The Dust Bowl (1); Before; 7th April, 1838; The Seven Clans of the Cherokee Nation; The Dream (1); Jesus; Lifted; The Nests of Boats; A New Sacred Ground; The Stars as Roller Rinks; Whaling; Arrival; The Parents' House; The Librarian; More of the Old Days of Removal; At the Iguana Cafe; Late; Captives; Knife Fight; The Dream (2); The Lost Boyfriend; The Outing; The Fort; The Sky Blowing with Stars; Raking; Grace; The Dream (3); The Truthettes (1); Now If I Get the Story Straight; The Bible; America; The Truthettes (2); To Kill; The Truthettes (3); Bed; Journal of Occurrences; The Observer; The Truthettes (4); The Oklahoma Twisters (Whirlwinds); Revelation; Leviathan; There Is a Voice I Don't Listen To; The Dispossessed; Crying Is My River (Psalm 42); Untitled (1); Untitled (2); The Dream (4); Buffalo Cookies; The Wake; Church Camp; A Story within a Story; Poor Sarah (1); The Dream (5); A Framed Narrative; Poor Sarah (2); Ether's Testimony at Church Camp; The Fight; Close; The Rebuilt; Cartoon; The Overhang; Nolie Starts Her Report for High School; The Other Dust Bowl; Relocation; Photo Album; The Dream of My Mother Somewhere; The Head Library; The Dust Bowl (2); Creation Myths for the Written Word; The Dream (6); Designs of the Night Sky; The Voices; Sequoyah's Cabin; Noel Starts Her First Report for College; The Spell; Indentation; Indention; Location; Intermediaries

"An engaging novel that deals with the issues of present and past among Native peoples and of Spirit in those who have embraced Christianity." Library Journal "Voices and stories fill the pages of prolific Native American writer Glancy's latest ... as a middle-aged Cherokee woman faces conflicts at work, in her fractured family, and in her faith... Post-structurally defiant in its bits and narrative pieces, but at its core a probing, honest tale." Kirkus Reviews