All My Sins Are Relatives

by W.S. Penn

Book Overview

'In All My Sins Are Relatives' Penn finds in his own family three generations trying to come to terms with their differences and their Indianness. Within its pages, Penn describes learning the depths... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080323709X
• ISBN13: 9780803237094
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Original, Refreshing, Instructive

This is an amazing book. It is hard to write about one's own family and make it interesting. To go further and make it not only interesting, but relevant to others, takes a writer of rare talent. Penn is clearly such a writer, and I was very pleasantly surprised at the creative and original approach taken in this work. The author draws thought-provoking parallels and connections between his own mixblood Indian family's dreams, visions, failures and successes, and those of other families, in particular other native and mixed-blood families, including exploration of the writing of many historical native American figures. This is a creative and very original book, highly recommended.