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The Hiawatha Paperback - 2000

by David Treuer

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Betty leaves the Ojibwe reservation with her four children to make a new life in Minneapolis. Her younger son finds romance on a soon-to-be demolished train--"The Hiawatha"--while his older brother takes a dangerous job scaling skyscrapers. Their fates collide in a tale of crime, punishment, and redemption.

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An elegy to the American dream, and to the sometimes tragic experience of the Native Americans who helped to build it, The Hiawatha is both a moving portrait of a family, and a fast-paced, page-turning literary mystery of murder and redemption.

Recently widowed, and encouraged by government relocation schemes to move Native Americans off their reservations, Betty takes her four young children from their Ojibwe roots to make a new life in Minneapolis. As Betty struggles to keep her family and her dignity intact, her younger son Lester finds romance on the soon-to-be-demolished train, The Hiawatha, while his older brother Simon secretly protects his mother by taking a dangerous job as a construction worker, scaling the heights of the skyscrapers that, once completed, will never welcome him.

Twenty years later, Simon is released from prison for a horrible crime of passion. His return to Minneapolis sets in motion the dramatic, inevitable conclusion to one family's ceaseless fight to survive.

David Treuer more than delivers on the promise he displayed in his acclaimed first novel, Little, and confirms his reputation as one of the most talented and original writers of his generation.

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They let it pass.The deer is so close they can see in its eyes the dawn light seeping gray over the rotten soffits and pooling there in the parking lot of Saint Steven's Church.

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  • Title The Hiawatha
  • Author David Treuer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, New York
  • Publication date 2000-06-03
  • ISBN 9780312252724 / 0312252722
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Geographic Orientation: Minnesota
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Ojibwa Indians
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

David Treuer grew up on an Ojibwe reservation in Northern Minnesota, attended Princeton University, and now divides his time between Minnesota and Wisconsin, where he teaches English at the University of Wisconsin.
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