Grover has received the Flannery O’Connor Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism

All these stories

making their heritage language a part of the backdrop and sometimes the medium

" —Terese Marie Mailhot

In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse Menominee Grover has received the FlanneryJimmy McClean is a Lakota boythough you wouldnt guess it by his name: his father is part white and part Lakota, and his mother is Lakota. When he embarks on a journey with his grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, he learns more and more about his Lakota heritagein particular, the story of Crazy Horse, one of the most important figures in Lakota and American history. Drawing references and inspiration from the oral stories of the Lakota tradition, celebrated