02477cam a2200421 i 4500 1564134266 TxAuBib 20240904120000.0 240819s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024016205 9781420515947 hardcover 1420515942 hardcover (OCoLC)1430207132 TxAuBib rda Porter, Michelle, 1975-, author. A grandmother begins the story / Michelle Porter. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024. 487 pages (large print) ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike Press large print dynamic drama "Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means. Allie, Carter's mother, is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother. Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her join her ancestors in the Afterlife. And Geneviève is determined to conquer her demons before the fire inside burns her up, with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without. Meanwhile, Mamé, in the Afterlife, knows that all their stories began with her; she must find a way to cut herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find their own paths forward. This extraordinary novel, told by a chorus of vividly realized, funny, wise, confused, struggling characters-including descendants of the bison that once freely roamed the land-heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction"-- Provided by publisher. 20240904. Métis women Fiction. Bison Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Grandmothers Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Families Fiction. Intergenerational relations Fiction. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Novels. fast Thorndike Press large print dynamic drama. TXKPL