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Barcode30053003812529
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoF CURT
Title Old school Indian : a novel / Aaron John Curtis.
Author Curtis, Aaron John author.
CollectionNEW: Adult Fiction
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003812529F CURT12/9/2025 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Curtis, Aaron John author.
Title Statement Old school Indian : a novel / Aaron John Curtis.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice [New York] : Hillman Grad Books, a Zando imprint, 2025.
Physical Description x, 333 pages 24 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "Abe Jacobs is Kanien'keha:ka from Ahkwesahsne--that's People of the Flint, from Where the Partridge Drums--or, if you ask a white dude, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. Whichever way you cut it--and Dominick Deer Woods, our irreverent, wisecracking narrator, cuts it six ways to Sunday--at eighteen Abe left the reservation where he was raised and never looked back. Now forty-three, Abe is suffering from a rare disease--one his doctors in Miami believe will kill him. Running from his diagnosis and a failing marriage, Abe returns to the Rez, where he's convinced to undergo a healing at the hands of his Great Uncle Budge. But this ain't Sweet Home Ahkwesahsne, as Dominick might say, and Budge--a wry recovered alcoholic prone to wearing band t-shirts featuring pot-bellied naked dudes--isn't the least bit precious about his gift. Which is good, because his time off Rez has made Abe a thorough skeptic. However, to heal Abe will have to undertake a revelatory journey, confronting the parts of himself he's hidden ever since he left home and learning to cultivate hope, even at his darkest hour. Delivered with crackling wit and wildly inventive linguistic turns, Old School Indian is a striking exploration of the power and secrets of family, the capacity for healing and catharsis, and the ripple effects of history and culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Mohawk Indians Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Families Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Healing Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Autoimmune diseases Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Homecoming Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Catastrophic illness Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Fiction
Index Term-Genre/Form Domestic fiction lcgft

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