{"product_id":"roofwalker-paperback","title":"Roofwalker - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn a collection by the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Grass Dancer\u003c\/em\u003e, a Sioux spirit travels the night sky in search of good dreams that are rendered true when he consumes them, from a Sioux elder's hope to return to her prairie home to a Harvard student's reevaluation of the learning process.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoofwalker\u003c\/em\u003e, made up of a unique combination of fiction and nonfiction, or \"stories\" and \"histories,\" reveals the ways that native traditions and beliefs work in the lives of characters who live far from the reservation--and in the author's own life. Many of the \"histories\" repeat subjects and themes found in the \"stories,\" making \u003cem\u003eRoofwalker\u003c\/em\u003e a book in which spirits and the living commingle and Sioux culture and modern life collide with disarming power, humor, and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first seven pieces in the book are \"stories,\" fictional accounts primarily of girls and women. In the title story, a young girl believes in the power of the \"roofwalker\" spirit to make her dreams come true. In \"Beaded Souls,\" a woman is cursed by the sin of her great-grandfather, an Indian policeman who arrested Sitting Bull. \"First Fruits\" follows a native girl's first-year at Harvard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nonfiction pieces include Power's imaginary account of the meeting of her Phi Beta Kappa father and Sioux mother, a piece about the letters of an Irish ancestor and another in which Power and her mother visit the Field Museum in Chicago, where a native ancestor's dress is on display.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68220367110367,"sku":"9781571310415","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/wuR8XlV5Ui9781571310415.webp?v=1792579852","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/roofwalker-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}