My mother is now Earth
By: Mark Anthony Rolo
Publisher: Borealis Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780873518536; 9780873518598
Subjects: Ethnic identity; Death; Family; Mothers; Ojibwa Indians; Mothers and sons; Ojibwa women; Biography; Psychological aspects; Childhood and youth; Dreams
Description: With an innocent and sometimes brutal child's view, Rolo recounts stories of a woman who battles poverty, depression, her abusive husband, and isolation through the long northern Minnesota winters, and of himself, her son, who struggles at school, wrestles with his Ojibwe identity, and copes with violence. But he also shows, with eloquence and compassion, his adult understanding of his mother's fight to live with dignity, not despair.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: 1971; title: The Story of Snakes; title: An Ancient Winter; title: Cloud Ceremony; title: A Howling Loon; title: Feast of Memory; title: Dead Hippie Praying; title: Wild Trees; title: Evening of the Bear; title: 1972; title: When the Land Whispers; title: A Cat's Storm; title: The Last Bloom of Lilacs; title: Rocket Son; title: Wounded Hearts; title: A Magic Hat; title: This Christmas Morning; title: 1973; title: Young Summers; title: A View from Fields; title: Star Stick; title: The Smile of Whiskey; title: Eyes in the Sun; title: Ghosts that Dream; title: My Mother Is Now Earth; title: Afterword.