Greg Sarris, Author Penguin Books $15 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-025038-1
Sarris's first work of fiction, a novel in 10 interconnected stories, probes the disenfranchised lives of a Native American community in California. (Dec.)
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Greg Sarris, Author Hyperion Books $21.45 (229p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6017-3
In his fiction debut, Sarris (Keeping Slug Woman Alive) offers 10 affecting stories that weave the history of five generations of Pomo Indians in Santa Rosa, Calif., with that of the other ethnic residents of Grand Avenue, ``two rows of army...
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Greg Sarris, Author University of California Press $45 (214p) ISBN 978-0-520-08006-5
Sarris, the chairman (i.e., chief) of the Coast Miwok tribe of Indians and teacher of Native American studies at UCLA, offers eight essays on Native American literature. The first two essays deal with oral tradition as embodied by Mabel McKay, the...
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Greg Sarris, Author Hyperion Books $24.45 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6110-1
Author and academic Sarris returns to the polyglot milieu of his short-story collection, Grand Avenue, in this witty, highly textured first novel. In fact, the short stories of the prior book form a kind of prequel to the current work. Filipinos,...
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Greg Sarris. Heyday, $20 (248p) ISBN 978-1-59714-630-2
This sharp-witted collection from Sarris (How a Mountain Was Made) comprises stories told by “crow sisters” about the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok homelands of northern California. Question Woman and Answer Woman, the twin granddaughters of...
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