The mask maker
Subtitle: a novel
By: Diane Glancy.
Series: American Indian literature and critical studies series ;; v. 42
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Mask makers -- Fiction.; Indian women -- Fiction.; Women artists -- Fiction.; Oklahoma -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In The Mask Maker, Diane Glancy tells the story of Edith Lewis, a recently divorced mixed-blood American Indian, as she travels the state of Oklahoma teaching students the art and custom of mask-making. A complex, subtle tale about flesh-and-blood human beings, this novel shows how one woman copes with alienation, loss, and questions about identity and, in the end, rediscovers meaning in living.".

"Through Edith's daily life and efforts to teach, Glancy explores the power of the mask and mask-making. When Edith tries reaching out to a listless, alienated student, she knows enough to ask, "Where would you want to go?" He replies, "Nowhere," to which she responds with the advice, "Then make a mask to take you nowhere."".

"For Edith, masks go beyond the limitations of words and surface gloss. "A mask is a face when you have none," she reflects. Yet some stories need to be confronted, so Edith struggles with the question of how to use masks to tell stories without using words."--BOOK JACKET.