Lyrical passages map the parallel lives of ancestral figures and connect dispossessions of the past to lived experiences of the present

present—and future

and conjures a world and a heroine readers will never forget

turning story that's as deeply rendered as it is thrilling

releases her eggs among the aquatic plants of a pond

Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army Salish (Séliš) Lyrical passages map the parallelIn the autumn of 1912, the football team from Carlisle Indian Industrial School took the field at the U. S. Military Academy, home to the bigger, stronger, and better equipped West Points Cadets. Sportswriters billed the game as a sort of rematch, pitting against each other the descendants of U. S. soldiers and American Indians who fought on the battlefield only 20 years earlier. But for lightning fast Jim Thorpe and the other Carlisle players, that