of childhood recaptured in the reflection of a shiny blue woodstove

” she writes

on a search for family

Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal

Until a friend comforted

Empire of Wild ecology of childhood recaptured in the"Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsiveall the while telling a story that needs to be told by a person who needs to be telling it." Tommy Orange, author of There There A bold and brilliant new indigenous voice in contemporary literature makes her American debut with this kinetic, imaginative, and sensuous fable inspired by the traditional Canadian Mtis legend of