A Perfect Likeness: Two Novellas

A Perfect Likeness: Two NovellasThe volume brings together two previously published novellas by Richard Wagamese, Him Standing and The Next Sure Thing, with a foreword from author Waubgeshig Rice. Both stories follow the lives of young men who have dreams for a better future. In their search for fame and fortune, Cree Thunderboy and Lucas Smoke end up on paths where their biggest challenge is staying true to themselves. In Him Standing, Lucas Smoke learns the art of carving from his

is a foundational story that remains largely untold in histories of early America

a ceremony is held in honor of a baby's first laugh

death marches

” — Publishers Weekly Starred Pick of the Week

which sleeps but doesn't dream

this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative

it is unflinchingly honest

David Heska Wanbli Weiden has written the first of what I hope is a series of books about life on Rosebud Reservation

to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon

especially to her beloved Oklahoma

Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity

this powerful autobiographical picture book teaches readers to use their big voice and that everyone deserves to be seen—and heard