The Insufficiency of Maps
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Atria
Published: April 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780743292078
Subjects: American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +; American First Novelists; Fiction; Fiction - General; Literary; Fiction / General; Psychological; Foster parents; Mentally ill parents; Quichâe Indians
Description: Alice is five when she and her homeless, mentally ill mother, Amalie, arrive at Papi's trailer in an Arizona Indian reservation to live. Papi may or may not be Alice's father, but he adores Amalie (who is of Kwytz'an descent) and has been waiting for her to return after years of hospitalization-related absence. Alice briefly attends the local reservation school before her mother's visions and paranoia prompt them to hitchhike back to Amalie's father's home in California.