Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory

Following on two previous collections--Write It on Your Heart and Nature Power--Talonbooks is pleased to announce the release of this third volume of oral narratives. Living by Stories includes a number of classic stories set in the "mythological age" about the trickster/transformer, Coyote but this new volume is more important for its presentation of historical narratives set in the more recent past. There is much chaos and conflict in these stories, mainly due to the arrival of new quasi-monsters--"SHAmas" (Whites)--who dispossess "Indians" of their lands and rights, and impose new political and legal systems.

"Harry Robinson may well be the most powerful storytelling voice in North America." --Thomas King, First Nations novelist