Song Over Miskwaa Rapids

Beginning with her award-winning debut story collection The Dance Boots and continuing with her novels The Road Back to Sweetgrass and In the Night of Memory, both published by Minnesota, Linda LeGarde Grover has created and explored the imaginary Mozhay Point Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesota. She also wrote the poetry collection The Sky Watched and a book blending memoir, history, and Ojibwe tradition, Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong. She is professor emerita of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe.

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"A sprawling, poignant chronicle of struggle and survivance." - Kirkus Reviews"With its powerful, atmospheric descriptions of the natural world, A Song over Miskwaa Rapids resembles an Indigenous family saga in miniature, couching memory and mystery in a potent spirit world." - Foreword Reviews"In this intimate and suspenseful novel, Grover explores the complex evolving relationship between a place and the people who inhabit it." - Electric Literature"I learned deep respect for how Grover deepens and reveals the links between the ancient world and the current one. Her plotting is deft, with splashes of humor to lighten her serious examination of current politics and environmental concerns. This is a wise and fun story to read, propelled forward by Grover's deft pacing and real literary gifts. She is a great storyteller." - Chronicle Journal"Grover writes with intentionality and grace as she examines ancestry, autonomy and survivance." - Ms. Magazine"The characters and circumstances described in the book were believable and noteworthy. LeGarde Grover unfolded a story about the Ojibwe people with the elegance of a remarkable storyteller." - UP Book Review"Filled with gripping prose, A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids is an engaging and thought-provoking read." - Northern Wilds"Like the birds that wake and sing the memories of our lands and lives, this novel plays over and over in my mind." - Tribal College Journal"Grover cleverly blurs the line between the living and the dead by having elders who have passed watch and comment on events as they unfold in the present." - Booklist