Title: Returning to earth
First published: 1977
Description: In the aftermath of a Chippewa-Finnish man's death from Lou Gehrig's disease, his wife, daughter, and brother-in-law read the family history he has left behind, study his philosophies about death, and struggle to redeem their own pasts.
Subjects: Death, Families, Family, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Indians, Fiction, Patients, Memory, Mixed descent, Fiction, sagas, Michigan, fiction
Places: Upper Peninsula (Mich.)