04722cam a2200349 4500 299485342 IaSh 20170721120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781524778194 1524778192 3d290231-43e7-4f36-8f25-4a10255d4c25 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2996417 OverDrive (Product ID) IaSh Fuller, Alexandra, 1969- Quiet Until the Thaw [Bridges Audiobook] : A Novel. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2017. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 130MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 283MB. HTML:The debut novel from the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Leaving Before the Rains Come. Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger toward the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota people by the federal government leads to tribal divisions and infighting, the cousins go in separate directions: Rick chooses the path of peace; You Choose, violence. Years pass, and as You Choose serves time in prison, Rick finds himself raising twin baby boys orphaned at birth in his meadow. As the twins mature from infants to young men, Rick immerses the boys in their ancestry, telling wonderful and terrible tales of how the whole world came to be and affirming their place in the universe as the result of all who have come before and will come behind. But when You Choose returns to the reservation after three decades behind bars, his anger manifests, forever disrupting the lives of Rick and the boys. A complex tale that spans generations and geography, Quiet Until the Thaw conjures the implications of an oppressed history, how we are bound not just to immediate family but to all who have come before and will come after us, and, most of all, to the notion that everything was always, and is always, connected. HTML:April 24, 2017 In her first novel, Fuller—English by birth but raised in Zimbabwe and now living in Wyoming—conjures the story of a group of Lakota Sioux struggling to make sense of their lives on the rez. A taciturn Indian boy named Rick Overlooking Horse and his rambunctious cousin, You Choose Watson, are raised by their grandmother until they are shipped off to the white man’s boarding school in Oklahoma. Even so, Rick is wise from an early age. After being badly maimed in Vietnam, he returns home to pitch a teepee and grow sacred weed on a piece of empty land that becomes a place of pilgrimage. His people come for advice, and for purification. And though he does not think of himself as their leader, when he travels to Wounded Knee they follow him to form what becomes the momentous protest of 1973. You Choose avoids military service but ends up in prison, after a stint as a corrupt and violent tribal chairman during the period when the American Indian Movement is at its zenith. While You Choose serves time, Rick raises twin boys, wards of a feisty Lakota woman named Le-a, who after her own defiant youth makes sure the orphans learn the ways of their ancestors. But when You Choose returns to the rez, tragedy ensues, and the twins, too, must find their own way. Fuller’s keen sense of engagement with a land “to which you now don’t belong,” and her place as an outsider, make her a sympathetic storyteller. Her prose shimmers and vibrates with life in this excellent novel.. Publisher's Weekly. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-07-20 23:00:03. Cuervo, Alma. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=3d290231-43e7-4f36-8f25-4a10255d4c25 https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2996417-QuietUntilTheThaw.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3d290231-43e7-4f36-8f25-4a10255d4c25&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2996417-QuietUntilTheThaw.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3d290231-43e7-4f36-8f25-4a10255d4c25&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)