she makes thrilling connections both large and small between the past and present

Indian schools

the Great Lakes

Looking for a little mischief after finding an old flare gun

”—Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Bleed Into Me: A Book of Stories resistance she makes thrilling connections bothWe stare at each other because we don't know which tribe, and then nod at the last possible instant. Standard procedure. You pick it up the first time a white friend leads you across a room just to stand you up by another Indian, arrange you like furniture, like you should have something to say to each other. As one character after another tells it in these stories, much that happens to them does so because "I'm an Indian." And, as Stephen Graham