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Elsie''s Business

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 080329865X
ISBN-13 9780803298651
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Imprint Bison Books
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Oct 1st, 2006
Print length 216 Pages
Weight 274 grams
Dimensions 21.70 x 14.00 x 1.20 cms
Ksh 2,500.00
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Rebuilding her life in a different town, the taciturn Elsie finds modest comfort among the white people who employ and befriend her. This book weaves the story of a ravaged woman into the traditional tales of her people to create a vivid sense of communities bound by storytelling and understanding and sundered by ignorance and silence.
Beaten, raped, and left for dead at the side of a road on the Standing Rock Reservation, young Elsie Roberts disappears into her self to revisit the haunts of her childhood and, perhaps, the depths of her experience to uncover the deepest mystery of all. In Elsie''s Business, Elsie''s search through her own memories ultimately intersects with the search of a stranger who is seeking Elsie''s story.

A picture emerges of a poor child, half black and half Native, whose mother has barely eked out a living for the two of them by tanning deerskins and cleaning houses. Rebuilding her life in a different town as a housekeeper, tanner, and beader of moccasins and bags, much like her mother, the taciturn Elsie finds modest comfort and connections among the white people who employ and befriend her. But her peace is fleeting, for someone from her past, or possibly her present, would like to see her silenced completely. A mystery of mesmerizing suspense and sadness, Elsie''s Business weaves the story of a ravaged woman into the traditional tales of her people to create a vivid sense of communities bound by storytelling and understanding and sundered by ignorance and silence.


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