When a rock is dislodged from its slope by mischievous ancestors the past rises to meet the present and HalfDime Hill gives up a gruesome secret it has kept for half a century Some people of Mozhay Point have theories about what happened others knowand the discovery stirs memories long buried reviving a terrible story yet to be told
Returning to the fictional Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota she deftly mapped in her awardwinning books Linda LeGarde Grover reveals traumas old and new as Margie Robineau in the midst of a fight to keep her familys land uncovers events connected to a longago escape plan across the Canadian border and the burial of not one crime but two While Margie is piecing the facts together Dale Ann is confronted by her own secrets and the truth that the long ago and the now the vital and the departed are all indelibly linked
As the past returns to haunt those involved Margie prepares her statement for the tribal government defending her familys land from a casino development and sorting the truths of HalfDime Hill from the facts that remain there Throughout the narrative a chorus of spirit women gather to reminisce reflect and speculate spinning the threads of family myth history and humor Grover weaves together an intimate and complex novel of a place and its people
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