![]() ![]() My professor was trying to be modern and avant-garde but the book was incomprehensible and had no plot, just intricate emotionally-laden descriptions that initially intrigued and later bored me. I found it unreadable – one of very few required novels I didn’t read cover to cover. I’d seen this book recommended so many times, but was avoiding it because I was required to read one of Erdrich’s books in college and did not like it. To think I didn’t really want to read it that much! The best historical fiction I’ve read in a long time, I might even like it better than Abby Takes a Stand. ![]() From the suspenseful prologue to the last word, I was fully immersed in this book. This is one year in the life of seven-year-old Omakayas (Oh-MAH-kay-ahs), an Ojibwa (Anishinabe) girl, in 1847. While the main character is seven, I would recommend this book for older children. NOTES: This is a work of fiction although I am not reviewing it on Fiction Friday. Historical fiction, 244 pages including glossary. Disney Hyperion, New York, 1999, my edition 2002. ![]()
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