The Home of the Drowned

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

The haunting, multigenerational saga of a family of Sámi women fighting the devastation of their way of life Nothing is true, and everything is true; poetry will never hurt more than what has happened. Every summer, Iŋgá, her mother Rávdná, and her Aunt Ánne travel west to their village on the lake. But the summer Iŋgá is thirteen, they arrive to find their home and possessions have disappeared under water, the land flooded by a dam built to supply hydropower to a society that has continually st