A Calm and Normal Heart: Stories Menominee including one of the only

including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau

community-based

a region and its peoples rarely covered in other publications

north-western Ontario

Meditations with Native American Elders: The Four Seasons is a day-at-a-time book offering a quotation by a Native Elder at the top of each page in separate entries over an entire year

A Calm and Normal Heart: Stories Menominee including one of the only"Chelsea T. Hicks' deadpan dexterous wit can make you laugh and cry in the space of a heartbeat. A Calm and Normal Heart is the book I've been waiting foraudacious, tender, and fiercely committed."Louise Erdrich "The stories in Chelsea Hicks's A Calm & Normal Heart are full of quiet truths and wry, soulful secrets. It is a book that doesn't at all feel like a debut story collection, but rather written with startling beauty and the flawless precision