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The Forgetters: Stories

The Forgetters: Stories - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Greg SarrisPublish date:2024-04-16Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Heyday BooksISBN-13:9781597146302ISBN-10:1597146307UPC:9781597146302Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Indigenous, Own Voices, HistoricalBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.40 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCV4T4KHP1

A tender, astonishing, and richly beautiful story cycle about remembering our shared histories and repairing the world.

"Each tale is a testament to never forgetting that the mountains, the sea, the rivers, animals and humans are all one. Osprey and abalone, wind and child, hummingbird and human--all unforgettable." --Susan Straight, author of Mecca

Perched atop Gravity Hill, two crow sisters--Question Woman and Answer Woman--recall stories from dawn to dusk. Question Woman cannot remember a single story except by asking to hear it again, and Answer Woman can tell all the stories but cannot think of them unless she is asked. Together they recount the journeys of the Forgetters, so that we may all remember. Unforgettable characters pass through these pages: a boy who opens the clouds in the sky, a young woman who befriends three enigmatic people who might also be animals, two village leaders who hold a storytelling contest. All are in search of a crucial lesson from the past, one that will help them repair the rifts in their own lives.

Told in the classic style of Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok creation stories, this book vaults from the sacred time before this time to the recent present and even the near future. Heralded as a "a fine storyteller" by Joy Harjo, Greg Sarris offers us these tales in a new genre of his own making. The Forgetters is an astonishment--comforting and startling, inspiring reveries and deepening our love of the world we share.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Heyday BooksISBN-13:9781597146302ISBN-10:1597146307UPC:9781597146302Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Indigenous, Own Voices, HistoricalBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.40 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCV4T4KHP1

Greg Sarris is currently serving his sixteenth term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and his first term as board chair for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. His publications include Keeping Slug Woman Alive (1993), Grand Avenue (1994, reissued 2015), Watermelon Nights (1998, reissued 2021), How a Mountain Was Made (2017, published by Heyday), and Becoming Story (2022, published by Heyday). Greg lives and works in Sonoma County, California. Visit his website at greg-sarris.com.



Publisher: Heyday Books

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Greg Sarris

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