Power - (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Linda Hogan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>After witnessing the killing of a panther--considered to be the sacred ancestor of her people--a young Taiga girl is torn between the feelings of her Westernized mother and the traditions of her people.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>When sixteen-year-old Omishto, a member of the Taiga Tribe, witnesses her Aunt Ama kill a panther-an animal considered to be a sacred ancestor of the Taiga people-she is suddenly torn between her loyalties to her Westernized mother, who wants her to reject the ways of the tribe, and to Ama and her traditional people, for whom the killing of the panther takes on grave importance.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>Power</em> is a beautifully written story, that rare book that comes along once in a while, touching the deep parts of our humanness and calling us...to be better than we are.-- "Rocky Mountain News"<br><br>[Hogan] has written a book about a crisis of belief that is dizzying in its depths, a book that is a testament to the ability of people to imagine what they cannot articulate.-- "Boston Book Review"<br><br>A deceptively straightforward novel, at least in its telling, that sneaks up to unsettle by making us take a fresh look at what may seem familiar.--Steve Himmer "Electric Literature"<br><br>Hogan's <em>Power</em> is a bildungsroman. It is a lament for the animals and plants we have so heedlessly extinguished and it is also a story hopeful for the restoration of a world in balance.-- "Bloomsbury Review"<br>
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