How a Mountain Was Made: Stories by Sarris, Greg

How a Mountain Was Made: Stories

In the tradition of Calvino's Italian Folktales, Greg Sarris, author of the award-winning novel Grand Avenue, turns...
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How a Mountain Was Made: Stories by Sarris, Greg

How a Mountain Was Made: Stories

$56.63

How a Mountain Was Made: Stories

$56.63
Author: Greg Sarris
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In the tradition of Calvino's Italian Folktales, Greg Sarris, author of the award-winning novel Grand Avenue, turns his attention to his ancestral homeland of Sonoma Mountain in Northern California. In sixteen interconnected original stories, the twin crows Question Woman and Answer Woman take us through a world unlike yet oddly reminiscent of our own: one which blooms bright with poppies, lupines, and clover; one in which Waterbug kidnaps an entire creek; in which songs have the power to enchant; in which Rain is a beautiful woman who keeps people's memories in stones. Inspired by traditional Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo creation tales, these stories are timeless in their wisdom and beauty, and because of this timelessness their messages are vital and immediate. The figures in these stories ponder the meaning of leadership, of their place within the landscape and their community. In these stories we find a model for how we can all come home again. At once ancient and contemporary, How a Mountain Was Made is equally at home in modern letters as the ancient story cycle. Sarris infuses his stories with a prose stylist's creativity and inventiveness, moving American Indian literature in a new and emergent direction.

Author: Greg Sarris
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: 10/10/2017
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781597144148


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2017

About the Author
Sarris, Greg: - Greg Sarris is currently serving his thirteenth term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. He holds the Graton Rancheria Endowed Chair in Writing and Native American Studies at Sonoma State University, and his publications include Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts (1993), Grand Avenue (1994), and Watermelon Nights (1999). Greg lives and works in Sonoma County.

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