Calling for a Blanket Dance - Oscar Hokeah
Category: Novel
Narrator: Rainy Fields
Tags: Novel, Literature, Adults
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Art Seidenbaum Award (2022), Aspen Words Literary Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2023), A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find strength in his familial identity, from a stellar new voice in literary fiction., Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they soldier through a myriad of difficulties: his fathers sudden kidney failure and subsequent disability, his mothers struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband, the constant resettlement of the family, and Evers own bottled-up rage at the instability all around him. Meanwhile, all of Evers relatives have ideas about who he is and who he should be. His Cherokee grandmother urges the family to move across the state to find security; his dying grandfather hopes to reunite him with his heritage through traditional gourd
