Book
The insufficiency of maps : a novel / Nora Pierce.
A young girl must discover the meaning of self and family as she struggles to find her place between two contrasting realities. On the reservation, Alice lives in a run-down trailer. Both her parents are alcoholics. She seldom has enough food and she rarely attends school, but she is free to follow her imagination. She is connected to the life and ancestry of her people and the deep love she receives from her family and community. When her mother succumbs to schizophrenia, Alice is removed from her home and placed with a white foster family in the suburbs. This new world is neat and tidy and wholesome, but it is also alien, and Alice is unmoored from everything she has ever known and everything that has defined her.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780743292085
- ISBN: 0743292081
- Physical Description: 217 p. ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Washington Square Press, 2008.
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- Domestic fiction.
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