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Four Souls: A Novel (NY, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004)

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Book Details: Four Souls

Designed by Elliott Beard. Family tree hand-lettered by Martie Holmer.

HarperCollins: hardcover

Harper Perennial: trade paperback


 

Subject Headings Assigned: Four Souls

Indian women -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Fiction
Ojibwa Indians -- Fiction
Indian women -- Fiction
North Dakota -- Fiction
Laundresses -- Fiction
Land tenure -- Fiction
Rich people -- Fiction
Revenge --Fiction

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Summary: Four Souls

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Table of Contents: Four Souls

Chapter One: The Roads
Narrator: Nanapush

Chapter Two: The Keyhole
Narrator: Polly Elizabeth

Chapter Three: Medicine
Narrator: Nanapush

Chapter Four: Karezza
Narrator: Polly Elizabeth

Chapter Five: Under the Ground
Narrator: Nanapush

Chapter Six: Figures of the Captive Graces
Narrator: Polly Elizabeth

Chapter Seven: Whiskey, Love, Linoleum
Narrator: Nanpush

Chapter Eight: His Comeuppance
Narrator: Polly Elizabeth

Chapter Nine: Love Snare
Narrator: Nanapush

Chapter Ten: If She Will Not Have Me Now
Narrator: Polly Elizabeth

Chapter Eleven: Dog Love
Narrator: Nanapush

Chapter Twelve: The Fortune
Narrator: Polly Elizabeth

Chapter Thirteen: Red Jacket Beans
Narrator: Nanapush

Chapter Fourteen: The Medicine Dress
Narrator: Margaret

Chapter Fifteen: The Game of Nothing
Narrator: Nanapush

Chapter Sixteen: The Healing
Narrator: Margaret

End of the Story
Narrator: Nanpush

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Blurbs: Four Souls

The New Yorker

San Francisco Chronicle

Chicago Magazine

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