{"product_id":"a-grandmother-begins-the-story-9781643755182","title":"A Grandmother Begins the Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eAward-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written like a crooked Métis jig, \u003ci\u003eA Grandmother Begins the Story\u003c\/i\u003e follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and rebuild their futures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means. \u003cbr\u003e Allie, Carter's mother, is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother. Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her join her ancestors in the Afterlife. And Geneviève is determined to conquer her demons before the fire inside burns her up, with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without. Meanwhile, Mamé, in the Afterlife, knows that all their stories began with her; she must find a way to cut herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find their own paths forward. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This extraordinary novel, told by a chorus of vividly realized, funny, wise, confused, struggling characters--including descendants of the bison that once freely roamed the land--heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Algonquin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643755182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2023 pg. 7\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michelle Porter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43124479295669,"sku":"9781643755182","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8a499731-d248-4cfa-89e3-69a3a487d6cb.jpg?v=1694552909","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-grandmother-begins-the-story-9781643755182","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}