of childhood recaptured in the reflection of a shiny blue woodstove

the electrifying proximity of the world of animals

resilience

the plight of her family is apparent

her kookum

Empire of Wild ecology of childhood recaptured in the"Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsiveall the while telling a story that needs to be told by a person who needs to be telling it." Tommy Orange, author of There There A bold and brilliant new indigenous voice in contemporary literature makes her American debut with this kinetic, imaginative, and sensuous fable inspired by the traditional Canadian Mtis legend of