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Ravensong

Name: Ravensong
Author: Lee Maracle
ISBN: 9780889740440

by Lee Maracle

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Overview

Passionate novel about a young woman's search for answers to difficult questions by one of our foremost First Nations writers. Stacey must balance her family's traditional ways against white society's intrusive values. Set in 1950's Pacific Northwest.

Synopsis

Lee Maracle, author of the best-selling I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism, sets this novel in an urban Native American community on the Pacific Northwest coast in the early 1950s. Ravensong is by turns damning, humorous, inspirational, and prophetic.