Designs of the Night Sky

by Diane Glancy

Book Overview

In this innovative novel, a librarian of Cherokee ancestry rekindles and reinvents her Native identity by discovering the rhythm and spark of traditionally told stories in the most unusual places in the modern world. Ada Ronner, a librarian at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, hears books speak and senses their restless flow as they circulate. The same relentless energy and liberation of the story is also felt by Ada as she roller-skates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803238207
• ISBN13: 9780803238206
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Compelling Poetic Narrative

Beautiful poetic prose and a compelling narrative and characters. Glancy weaves several narrative styles together from chapter to chapter, in a style appropriate to the tensions and struggles of the protagonist Ada as she struggles both to hold together a splintering family again and to make sense of (or reconcile) the competing claims of written narrative and oral narrative of the two cultures she straddles.