A Line of Driftwood

The Ada Blackjack Story

Diane Glancy

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Turtle Point Press
05 January 2022

Historical fiction

Continues Glancy's signature poetic investigation of suffering, identity, and Indigenous history, as in her 2020 work, Island of the Innocent: A Consideration of the Book of Job, and her 1998 novel, Pushing the Bear. Glancy's status as a mentor and teacher of generations of native writers working today. This is a story of Arctic exploration, of bravery, strength, will, and danger, told from the point of view of a woman and a mother. Published upon the 100th anniversary of the expedition. It is the story of an Indigenous Inuit woman. A meditation on history, memory, writing, and the archive, which includes a creative use of historical materials, including passages and facsimile pages from the real diary. Cover artwork by Anne Kingsbury, who cofounded and directs the Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

By: Diane Glancy
Imprint: Turtle Point Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9781933527215
ISBN 10: 1933527218
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 05 January 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Diane Glancy is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and professor emeritus at Macalester College. Her works have won the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, a Juniper Prize for Poetry, and an American Book Award. In 2018, Publishers Weekly named her book Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears one of the ten essential Native American novels. Her 2020 work, Island of the Innocent: A Consideration of the Book of Job continues and deepens a lifelong exploration of the religious and cultural dimensions of identity.

Reviews for A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story

Praise for Diane Glancy Glancy is a treasure. --American Book Review A moving testament to the creative act of enduring.--Foreword Reviews, starred review What bounty to have Glancy's great art erupt once more. --Spencer Reece Is there a tether that pulls [Diane Glancy] back into the historical? Or is it the other way around? --Peter Mishler, LitHub Stunning. ...A graphic and compelling mosaic of human tragedy. --Library Journal, starred review [An] illuminating and challenging chronicle of loss, despair, and regeneration. --Washington Post Book World