As a bookseller who is also a mostly unpublished writer, I crave contact with other serious writers. One of my main tasks at Paulina Springs Books is booking our author events, which means I get to meet or have contact with all the authors who come through here. You would think this would be the …
“This book is bursting with life. It’s filled with poetry, dizzy with first love, buzzing with eccentric characters. Why is this surprising? Because, on the face of it, the book is focused around a death. Lennon’s older sister, Bailey, has just died, and Lennon and her Gram and Uncle Big are heartbroken. Sixteen-year-old Lennon tells …
“In this very readable narrative, Jeffrey Ostler gives us the history of the relationship between the Lakota Indian tribe and their struggle to retain a connection to a homeland that means so much to them, the Northern Plains of the Black Hills of South Dakota. As is true with most Native American histories, this is …
