While cleaning up their great-great-uncle's house in preparation for selling it, thirteen-year-old Roy and his eleven-year-old brother, Jason, find two strange little doors and learn that someone is trying to open them to get what lies between.
The first book in Erdrich's Native American tetralogy that includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace is an authentic and emotionally powerful glimpse into the Native American experience.
An unabridged republication of an article from the "Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1926-1927," which details the use of nearly two hundred plants for food, natural cures, and native crafts.
Contains three linked stories in which a young Ojibwa boy and his grandfather set out early one morning and spend the day observing the ways of nature.