While the Locust Slept - (Native Voices) by Peter Razor (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Through transcendent prose, an Ojibwe man chronicles his survival of abuse and bigotry at a state orphanage in the 1930s and the brutal farm indenture that followed.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Through transcendent prose, an Ojibwe man chronicles his survival of abuse and bigotry at a state orphanage in the 1930s and the brutal farm indenture that followed.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Peter Razor's coming-of-age story is a shocking revelation and succeeds where most other Native American autobiographies have failed. <em>While the Locust Slept</em> never confuses honesty with the truth, never descends into racial blaming, and refuses to use Ojibwe culture as a mirror in which the travesties of modern times are reflected. Instead, in a voice as simple and innocent as our childhood should be, he lets his experiences as an orphan tell the harrowing story of a lost generation of Indian children. <em>While the Locust Slept </em>is a treasure."<br>David Treuer, author of <em>Little</em> and <i>The Hiawatha</i></p><p>"Peter Razor spins an intense and endearing tale of an American Indian youth abandoned to the cruel mercy of the state. As memoir, his voice is amazingly distinctive--giving a cultural story of human survival. As history, his work informs us of an almost hidden, dark time in our past."<br>Mark Anthonly Rolo (Bad River Ojibwe), former editor of <em>The Circle</em>, and author of <i>My Mother is Now Earth</i></p><p><i><br></i></p><p>"Razor's story is a revelation . . . and is part of an honorable tradition of memoir writing by Native American writers, including Linda Hogan, Paula Gunn Allen, [and] N. Scott Momaday."<br><i>Library Journal</i></p><p>"A stirring tale of a Native American childhood . . . recounted in spare prose loaded with feeling and insight. . . . [A] valuable coming of age story."<br><em>Publishers Weekly</em></p><p>"Starvation, savage kicks, plotted escapes . . . not tales from a penal colony, these episodes were part of Peter Razor's early life, spent as a ward of the state. . . . <i>While the Locust Slept</i> is the evenhanded, compelling tale of his harrowing childhood. . . . <i>While the Locust Slept</i> is memoir of the best kind--a clear testimony to events of [the] past."<br><i>Ripsaw News</i></p><p>"A perfectly pitched memoir."<br><em>Kirkus</em></p><br>
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