I’m happy to announce that Dog Ears Books is now carrying An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (see my review here), winner of the 2015 American Book Award, and I look forward to stocking a new version of the book for young people that should be available before the end of July. There are over 500 federally recognized Indigenous nations in the U.S. today, and Dunbar-Ortiz gives us American history from their perspective.
Books about immigration, the frontier, and our southern border are one of my bookstore features this summer, beginning with a novel I’ve written about on my “Books in Northport” blog, Lost Children Archive, by Valerie Luiselli. Besides the plight of Latin American refugees, another focus of the novel is Apache history, so it connects with the history book referenced above. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, also by Luiselli, also tells of child asylum seekers.
Two Michigan anthologies deal with immigration poetically. They are Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice, edited by, and. The latter collection presents prose memoir pieces, along with poems.
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Paper, 296pp
$16
Lost Children Archive
by Valerie Luiselli
Hardcover, 383pp
$27.95
Tell Me How It Ends:
An Essay in Forty Questions
by Valerie Luiselli
Paper, 119pp
$12.95
Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate
on Social Justice
ed. Ron Riekki & Andrea Scarpino
Paper, 297pp
$26.95
Immigration & Justice For Our Neighbors,
ed. Jennifer Clark & Miriam Downey
Paper, 115pp
$10
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