Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land

Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen LandThe son of working class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this "stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many landscapes of the Americas" (Catriona Menzies Pike, author of The Long Run). Growing up in Yakima, Washington, No lvarez worked at an apple packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit,

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The Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe—love

The beat vibrates through the trees and across the meadows

and the theories of anthropology

Her point of view is always slightly off center

the stories reflect a rare authenticity as they transmit cultural values

grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained by Franz Boas at Columbia University

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“A stunning novel…A heartbreaking tale of love

Richard Wagamese again invites readers to accompany him on his travels

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