Thinning Blood
A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
Seiten
2023
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-03670-8 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-03670-8 (ISBN)
A vibrant new voice blends Native folklore and the search for identity in a fierce debut work of personal history
Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe’s strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers, determined to leave a record of her family history, excavates the stories of four generations of women. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family’s totem pole: protective Bear, defiant Salmon, compassionate Hummingbird and perched on top, Raven. As she pieces together their stories, Myers weaves in tribal folktales, the history of the Native genocide, and the larger story of how, as she puts it, her “culture is being bleached out”, offering sharp vignettes of her own life between White and Native worlds.
Crisp and powerful, Thinning Blood is a bold reclamation of one woman’s identity that raises urgent questions about heritage, family and what it means to belong.
Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe’s strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers, determined to leave a record of her family history, excavates the stories of four generations of women. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family’s totem pole: protective Bear, defiant Salmon, compassionate Hummingbird and perched on top, Raven. As she pieces together their stories, Myers weaves in tribal folktales, the history of the Native genocide, and the larger story of how, as she puts it, her “culture is being bleached out”, offering sharp vignettes of her own life between White and Native worlds.
Crisp and powerful, Thinning Blood is a bold reclamation of one woman’s identity that raises urgent questions about heritage, family and what it means to belong.
Leah Myers received an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of New Orleans, where she won the Mockbee Award for Nonfiction two years in a row. She now lives in Alabama, with roots in Georgia, Arizona, and Washington.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.05.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 4 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 147 x 218 mm |
| Gewicht | 314 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-324-03670-2 / 1324036702 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-324-03670-8 / 9781324036708 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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