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From the Hilltop

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For the characters we meet in Toni Jensen's stories, the past is very much the present. Theirs are American Indian lives off the reservation, lives lived beyond the usual boundaries set for American Indian characters: migratory, often overlooked, yet carrying tradition with them into a future of difference and possibility. Drawing on American Indian oral traditions and her own Metis upbringing, Jensen tells stories that mix many lives and voices to offer fleeting perspectives on a world that reconfigures the tragedy and disconnection often found in narratives of American Indian life. A brother falls off the roof of an abandoned hotel, a young bride tries to connect with a family she's never met, and an adopted teenage girl seeks acceptance where she is viewed as an outsider. The reader also encounters a kidnapped nephew, strangers in a hotel, and even a stray dog: these are the souls that populate Jensen's stories, finding tentative connections with the past, the future, one another, and finally us.
Toni Jensen is an assistant professor of English at the University of Central Florida. Her short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines and have been reprinted in volumes such as New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007 and Best Stories from the Southwest.
1. Chiromancer 2. Butter 3. Learning How to Drown 4. Still 5. At the Powwow Hotel 6. From the Hilltop 7. Conjunctions 8. Killing Elvis 9. Sight and Other Hazards 10. Flight 11. Looking for Boll Weevil 12. Song or Something Like It
A collection of short stories that examines the lives and experiences of mixed-blood and metis peoples in modern America
"Welcome to the West as seen by the folks who shop at K-Mart and work picking up tips and cleaning motels. This is a portrait of America told with truth and love, tales at once funny as they are tragic. Toni Jensen writes from her heart." Sandra Cisneros, author of Caramelo "At first you'll wish you had written these stories yourself, then you'll suspect you feel that way because you maybe lived them, they're that real, but by the end you'll be thrilled just to have entered the world of Toni Jensen's fiction. This is an important debut, one that stays with you. Expect more from her." Stephen Graham Jones, author of Bleed into Me
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