From the Hilltop, Paperback by Jensen, Toni, Used Good Condition, Free shippi...

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Genre: Fiction Book Series: Native Storiers: a Series of American Narratives Ser. Item Height: 0.5 in Book Title: From the Hilltop Item Weight: 8.5 Oz Format: Trade Paperback Topic: Short Stories (Single Author), General width: 5.4 in ISBN: 9780803226340 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Number of Pages: 190 Pages Item Length: 8.4 in Item Width: 5.4 in Author: Toni Jensen height: 0.5 in Language: English Publication Year: 2010

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From the Hilltop, Paperback by Jensen, Toni, Used Good Condition, Free shippi.... From the Hilltop, Paperback by Jensen, Toni, ISBN 0803226349, ISBN-13 9780803226340, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US For the characters we meet in Toni Jensen&;s stories, the past is very much the present. Theirs are American Indian lives off the reservation, lives lived beyond the usual boundaries set for American Indian characters: migratory, often overlooked, yet carrying tradition with them into a future of difference and possibility. Drawing on American Indian oral traditions and her own Métis upbringing, Jensen tells stories that mix many lives and voices to offer fleeting perspectives on a world that reconfigures the tragedy and disconnection often found in narratives of American Indian life. A brother falls off the roof of an abandoned hotel, a young bride tries to connect with a family she&;s never met, and an adopted teenage girl seeks acceptance where she is viewed as an outsider. The reader also encounters a kidnapped nephew, strangers in a hotel, and even a stray dog: these are the souls that populate Jensen&;s stories, finding tentative connections with the past, the future, one another, and finally us.