02896cam a2200385 i 4500 1004785043 TxAuBib 20231010120000.0 180301s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018007660 9781432851118 hardcover 143285111X hardcover TxAuBib rda Skenandore, Amanda, author. Between earth and sky / by Amanda Skenandore. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018. 567 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Thorndike Press® Large Print Historical Fiction" -- Verso title page. A reissue of the Kensington Books edition (New York, 2018). "In Amanda Skenandore's provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging. On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry--or Asku, as Alma knew him--was the most promising student at the "savage-taming" boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children of neighboring reservations. Instead, it robbed them of everything they'd known--language, customs, even their names--and left a heartbreaking legacy in its wake. The bright, courageous boy Alma knew could never have murdered anyone. But she barely recognizes the man Asku has become, cold and embittered at being an outcast in the white world and a ghost in his own. Her lawyer husband, Stewart, reluctantly agrees to help defend Asku for Alma's sake. To do so, Alma must revisit the painful secrets she has kept hidden from everyone--especially Stewart. Told in compelling narratives that alternate between Alma's childhood and her present life, Between Earth and Sky is a haunting and complex story of love and loss, as a quest for justice becomes a journey toward understanding and, ultimately, atonement" -- Provided by publisher. 20231010. Spouses Fiction. Ojibwa Indians Fiction. Indians, Treatment of Fiction. White people Relations with Indians Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction. Psychological fiction. lcgft Historical fiction. lcgft Large print books. lcgft