In the Hands of the River louise Based on interviews Treuer conducted

Based on interviews Treuer conducted with ten elders this anthol-ogy presents the elders' stories transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on facing pages

Mann's language is as plainspoken and clear as it is provocative

but Mama's skin is the color of sand

and an afterword by Cristina Eisenberg

Janet McAdams

In the Hands of the River louise Based on interviews Treuer conductedWhat can we do but seek nectar where it blooms, whispers the porous and questioning speaker of In the Hands of the River. With delicate precision, In the Hands of the River subverts traditional poetic forms to show how a childhood for a queer boy of both Cherokee and European heritage happens within and outside dominant narratives of Appalachia. This debut collection weaves ancestral and personal threads of trauma, reclamation, and survival into a