Empire of Wild

Empire of Wild"Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsiveall the while telling a story that needs to be told by a person who needs to be telling it." Tommy Orange, author of There There A bold and brilliant new indigenous voice in contemporary literature makes her American debut with this kinetic, imaginative, and sensuous fable inspired by the traditional Canadian Mtis legend of

joining the top-secret Skunk Works division of Lockheed

or how she is living

wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them

repetition

Her experiments with structure and language

author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

salamanders

In the process

by her words

Windy watches the dancers and listens to the singers

With connections to traditional homelands being at the heart of Native identity

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist