the past rises to meet the present

and propulsive novel in the spirit of Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel García Márquez

first-hand native accounts tells it all — ordinary and heroic Native people recording their own history as it happens

Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life

An Expanse of Blue Arapaho the past rises to meetA powerful, romantic debut novel in verse about a Native Hawaiian girl's fight to find belonging in a fracturing family, sharing a message of love with resounding emotional truth. Aouli Elizabeth Smith is adrift: unheard at home and an unbeliever at church, fighting her sister and losing her best friend. Overflowing with feeling, she pours her secrets and herself into her song journal when the world threatens to sweep her away. The one place she feels