An edition of Solar Storms (1994)

Solar Storms

A Novel

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An edition of Solar Storms (1994)

Solar Storms

A Novel

  • 5.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 48 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

Abused and relinquished by her mother when very young, Angel has been moved from foster home to foster home. A rebellious, hurt, and literally scarred teenager, she sets out to search for her birth family, her mother, and herself. Finding her way to the remote region where she was born, Angel reencounters the brittle cold world where her ancestors have withstood both the harsh dangers of nature and the incursion of hostile outsiders.

Here she reunites with Agnes, her great-grandmother; Dora-Rouge, her great-great-grandmother; and Bush, the woman who adopted Angel's mother and raised Angel when she was a young girl.

But before Angel can settle into her new home, this recently rejoined family of women sets off by canoe on a journey to their ancestral homeland in the far North, where a hydroelectric dam project is under way. There Angel finds herself caught in a conflict that threatens two indigenous tribes, their ties to the land, and Angel's very essence as she tries to resolve her inner turmoil over who she is and where she belongs.

Robust and poetic, Solar Storms has the feel of a richly woven tapestry. Both as a story of love and family, and as a parable of the Native American quest to reclaim a lost way of life, the novel not only fulfills the enormous expectations raised by Linda Hogan's previous work, it surpasses it.

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Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Pages
351

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3558.O34726 S58 1995, PS3558.O34726S58

The Physical Object

Pagination
351 p. :
Number of pages
351

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL792015M
ISBN 10
0684812274
LCCN
95024563
OCLC/WorldCat
32859739
LibraryThing
156804
Goodreads
3840331

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2423169W

Work Description

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Linda Hogan, Solar Storms tells the moving, "luminous" (Publishers Weekly) story of Angela Jenson, a troubled Native American girl coming of age in the foster system in Oklahoma, who decides to reunite with her family. At seventeen, Angela returns to the place where she was raised'a stunning island town that lies at the border of Canada and Minnesota'where she finds that an eager developer is planning a hydroelectric dam that will leave sacred land flooded and abandoned. Joining up with three other concerned residents, Angela fights the project, reconnecting with her ancestral roots as she does so. Harrowing, lyrical, and boldly incisive, Solar Storms is a powerful examination of the clashes between cultures and traumatic repercussions that have shaped American history.

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