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Mother

Mother

Redcherries, M. S.

Paperback

Series: Penguin Poets

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0143137832
ISBN13: 9780143137832
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Jul 16 2024
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY

This is an incredibly powerful book of poetry that is also fiction but it is so real, and singular, as to defy definition, and I defy anyone to read it and come away unchanged. --Tommy Orange, author of There There and Wandering Stars

A stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity

mother is a work rooted in an intimate fracture: an Indigenous child is adopted out of her tribe and raised by a non-Indian family. As an adult finding her way back to her origins, our unnamed narrator begins to put the pieces of her birth family's history together through the stories told to her by her mother, father, sister, and brother, all of whom remained on the reservation where she was born. Through oral histories, family lore, and imagined pasts and futures, a collage of their community emerges, raising profound questions about adoption, inheritance, and Indigenous identity in America.

Through poetic vignettes whose unconventional forms mirror the nonlinear, patchwork process of constructing a sense of self, m.s. RedCherries has crafted an indelible and utterly original work about the winding roads that lead us home.

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