A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids by Linda LeGarde Grover;

Author:Linda LeGarde Grover; [Grover, Linda LeGarde]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC019000 FICTION / Literary, FIC059000 FICTION / Indigenous, FIC045020 FICTION / Family Life / Siblings
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2023-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

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In the kitchen, Dale Ann felt the pink envelope in her sweater pocket, her fingers gripping it into a cylinder. Suddenly powerfully thirsty, she poured a glass of water and drank it all without stopping, then rinsed the glass and wiped it with a dish towel, turning it in the light from the window over the sink to inspect it for smears. She squinted, rinsed, and wiped it again and looked out the window at the backyard, where the Tuomelas’ laundry waved in the breeze. She counted the socks (six); Mrs. Tuomela’s step-ins, folded modestly in half (two); two sets of one-piece men’s union suits; a nightgown; a slip; and four men’s handkerchiefs.

Then she sat at the counter at the front of the store and unrolled the envelope, rolled it in the opposite direction to flatten it, glanced out the front window but saw no cars, no customers, no passersby. She swallowed, slid a finger under the flap, pulled out a note card with a printed garland of pink daisies in the shape of a peace sign on the front. Noticing that the little circles that had danced above Cat’s i’s and j’s in her letter of two years ago were missing, she began to read:

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