![]() ![]() ![]() I finished this book a few days ago, and I haven't been able to stop talking about it since. It was partly inspired by family research done by Erdrich's mother and sister-they have ancestors who lived on Moningwanaykaning in the 1800s-and the series as a whole is, in Erdrich's words, "an attempt to retrace my own family's story". ![]() The Birchbark House chronicles a year in her life and the life of her family: from sibling rivalry to sibling cooperation from dangerous animals to friendly ones from harvesting corn and wild rice to stocking winter stores to making maple sugar from living in a birchbark house in the summer, moving to a cedar cabin in the winter, and back again from feast to famine, from joy and wonder to illness and grief. It's 1847, and eight-year-old Ojibwa girl Omakayas lives with her family on Moningwanaykaning, Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker, in Lake Superior. ![]()
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