Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Beadworkers

Beth Piatote
4.11/5 (767 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world

Told with humor, subtlety, and beautiful spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote's first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return.

A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings, while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An eleven-year-old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s, as her family is gradually drawn to the front lines of the conflict. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college, one French and the other Lakota, each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce/Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone.

Formally inventive, witty, and generous, the works in this singular debut collection draw on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life in the Americas.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
208 pages
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Counterpoint
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1640092684
ISBN13:
9781640092686
kindle Asin:
B07N8YX9VL

The Beadworkers

Beth Piatote
4.11/5 (767 ratings)
Read Download
Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world

Told with humor, subtlety, and beautiful spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote's first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return.

A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings, while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An eleven-year-old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s, as her family is gradually drawn to the front lines of the conflict. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college, one French and the other Lakota, each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce/Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone.

Formally inventive, witty, and generous, the works in this singular debut collection draw on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life in the Americas.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
208 pages
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Counterpoint
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1640092684
ISBN13:
9781640092686
kindle Asin:
B07N8YX9VL

More Books

Nature Poem

Tommy Pico

The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

Thomas King

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

N.K. Jemisin

Calling for a Blanket Dance

Oscar Hokeah

Fi: A Memoir of My Son

Alexandra Fuller

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

Leah Myers

Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

There There

Tommy Orange

Leaving Before the Rains Come

Alexandra Fuller

Thunder Song: Essays

Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

A Grandmother Begins the Story

Michelle Porter

In the Night of Memory

Linda LeGarde Grover