{"product_id":"song-over-miskwaa-rapids-1","title":"Song Over Miskwaa Rapids","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fifty-year-old mystery converges with a present-day struggle over family, land, and history-now available in paperback\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When a rock is dislodged from its slope by mischievous ancestors, the past rises to meet the present, and Half-Dime Hill gives up a gruesome secret it has kept for half a century. Some people of Mozhay Point have theories about what happened; others know-and the discovery stirs memories long buried, reviving a terrible story yet to be told. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Returning to the fictional Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota she has so deftly mapped in her award-winning books, Linda LeGarde Grover reveals traumas old and new as Margie Robineau, in the midst of a fight to keep her family’s long-held allotment land, uncovers events connected to a long-ago escape plan across the Canadian border, and the burial-at once figurative and painfully real-of not one crime but two. While Margie is piecing the facts together, Dale Ann is confronted by her own long-held secrets and the truth that the long ago and the now, the vital and the departed are all indelibly linked, no matter how much we try to forget.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As the past returns to haunt those involved, Margie prepares her statement for the tribal government, defending her family’s land from a casino development and sorting the truths of Half-Dime Hill from the facts that remain there. Throughout the narrative, a chorus of spirit women gather in lawn chairs with coffee and cookies to reminisce, reflect, and speculate, spinning the threads of family, myth, history, and humor-much as Grover spins another tale of Mozhay Point, weaving together an intimate and complex novel of a place and its people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55283414630744,"sku":"9781517914820","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781517914820.jpg?v=1777962633","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/song-over-miskwaa-rapids-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}