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A young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging in this poignant novel exploring the tragic legacy of forced assimilation and abuse at Native American residential schools in the early 20th century. The award-winning debut novel by the author of The Nurses Secret is now available with new bonus content, including an interview with the woman who inspired it Amanda Skenandores mother-in-law and a member the Lake Superior Ojibwe. On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Almas childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harryor Asku, as Alma knew himwas the most promising student at the savage-taming boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children of neighboring reservations. Instead, it robbed them of everything theyd knownlanguage, customs, even their namesand left a heartbreaking legacy in its wake. The bright, courageous boy Alma knew could never have murdered anyone. But she barely recognizes the man Asku has become, cold and embittered at being an outcast in the white world and a ghost in his own. Her lawyer husband, Stewart, reluctantly agrees to help defend Asku for Almas sake. To do so, Alma must revisit the painful secrets she has kept hidden from everyoneespecially Stewart. Told in compelling narratives that alternate between Almas childhood and her present life, Between Earth and Sky is a haunting and complex story of love and loss, as a quest for justice becomes a journey toward understanding and, ultimately, atonement.
A young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging in this poignant novel exploring the tragic legacy of forced assimilation and abuse at Native American residential schools in the early 20th century.
The award-winning debut novel by the author of The Nurses Secret is now available with new bonus content, including an interview with the woman who inspired it Amanda Skenandores mother-in-law and a member the Lake Superior Ojibwe.
On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Almas childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harryor Asku, as Alma knew himwas the most promising student at the savage-taming boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children of neighboring reservations. Instead, it robbed them of everything theyd knownlanguage, customs, even their namesand left a heartbreaking legacy in its wake.
The bright, courageous boy Alma knew could never have murdered anyone. But she barely recognizes the man Asku has become, cold and embittered at being an outcast in the white world and a ghost in his own. Her lawyer husband, Stewart, reluctantly agrees to help defend Asku for Almas sake. To do so, Alma must revisit the painful secrets she has kept hidden from everyoneespecially Stewart.
Told in compelling narratives that alternate between Almas childhood and her present life, Between Earth and Sky is a haunting and complex story of love and loss, as a quest for justice becomes a journey toward understanding and, ultimately, atonement.