Living On The Borderlands: Stories by Melissa Michal (English) Paperback Book

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Both on and off the rez, interlinked characters contend with history and identity as contemporary members of the Seneca Nation.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

Both on and off the rez, characters contend with identity as contemporary Haudenosaunee peoples; the stories "cross bloodlines, heart lines, and cultural lines, powerfully charting whta it is to be human in a world that works to divide us" (Susan Power, author ofSacred Wilderness).In Living on the Borderlines, intergenerational memory and trauma slip into everyday life: a teenager struggles to understand her grandmother's silences, a man contemplates what it means to preserve tradition in the wake of the "disappearing Indian" myth, and an older woman challenges her town's prejudice while uniting an unlikely family.With these stories, debut writer Melissa Michal weaves together an understated and contemplative collection exploring what it means to be Indigenous.

Author Biography

Melissa Michal is of Seneca descent. She teaches creative writing and literature and loves helping students find that they too can write. She is a fiction writer, essayist, photographer, and a professor. She has her MFA from Chatham University, MA from The Pennsylvania State University, and her PhD in literature from Arizona State University where she focused on education and representation of Indigenous histories and literatures in curriculum. She has been grateful to read at the National American Indian Museum in DC and Amerind Museum in Dragoon. Melissa has work appearing in The Florida Review,Yellow Medicine Review,and other places. She was a finalist for the Louise Meriwether first book prize.She has a novel completed and is working on her nonfiction essay collection.

Review

"The stories in Living on the Borderlines cross bloodlines, heart lines, and cultural lines, powerfully charting what it is to be human in a world that works to divide us." —Susan Power, author of Sacred Wilderness"Living on the Borderlines is a beautiful window into understanding Indigenous worldviews. Indigenous cultures think primarily in terms of space, and Western Europeans think in terms of time. Yet, Indigenous stories sharing original wisdom is how the first peoples of this land survived despite countless attempts to eradicate our race, culture, and way of life. This book is an unapologetic contemporary perspective of the truth of healing through Indigenous storytelling." —Sarah Eagle Heart, CEO of Native Americans in Philanthropy"Enlightening and thought-provoking, Michal's stories are a pleasure to read and absorb." —Booklist"Deftly crafted, inherently interesting, thoughtful and thought-provoking, but above all entertaining." —Midwest Book Review"Melissa Michal writes . . . with a power that will make you want to read and reread these stories." —Brooklyn Rail"Living on the Borderlines is a hauntingly beautiful collection of stories of contemporary women and girls who live in the spaces between the reservations and traditional Indigenous territories and rural and urban communities stretching across western New York to the Blue Ridge Mountains, and beyond, to the island of Haida Gwaii off the coast of British Columbia. Despite the family choices, personal losses, intergenerational and historical traumas that separate Melissa Michal's characters across time and space, both they and their stories are woven together by their ancestral bloodlines, spirits and voices that dance and dream, spelunk and sing them from the past, through the present, and into a resurgent future. Michal's debut is a stunning achievement." —Nikki Dragone, visiting assistant professor of Native American studies, Dickinson College 

Promotional

Support for a three-city bookstore tour surrounding launch of the book, including stops in: (tentatively) New York, NY; Rochester, NY; Boston, MAGalley mailing to national print and online media (see below), and to select bookstores. Galleys will be available in mid-May 2018.General interest: LA Times, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, The New York Times, Chicago Daily Herald, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, VICE Media, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, Harper's, VICE, Buzzfeed, Village Voice, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Miami RailLiterary: n+1, Bookforum, New York Review of Books, LA Review of Books, The Millions, LitHub, The Paris Review, The Believer, Bloomsbury Review, Rain Taxi, The Rumpus, BookPage, Full Stop, Book Riot, BOMB, Granta, Boston Review, Brooklyn RailWomen's interest and/or feminist pop culture: Ms., Bitch, Bust, VICE Broadly, Jezebel, The Hairpin, Salon, Feministing, Oprah, Elle, Marie Claire, Nylon, Refinery29, ComplexTrades: Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, Library Journal, School Library Journal, CHOICE, Shelf Awareness, Horn BookPartnership will be sought with the Native American Studies departments (a field in which the author teaches) and the Native American Journalists Association to create this title's media campaign

Review Text

"The stories in Living on the Borderlines cross bloodlines, heart lines, and cultural lines, powerfully charting what it is to be human in a world that works to divide us." --Susan Power, author of Sacred Wilderness

Review Quote

"The stories in Living on the Borderlines cross bloodlines, heart lines, and cultural lines, powerfully charting what it is to be human in a world that works to divide us." --Susan Power, author of Sacred Wilderness "Living on the Borderlines is a beautiful window into understanding Indigenous worldviews. Indigenous cultures think primarily in terms of space, and Western Europeans think in terms of time. Yet, Indigenous stories sharing original wisdom is how the first peoples of this land survived despite countless attempts to eradicate our race, culture, and way of life. This book is an unapologetic contemporary perspective of the truth of healing through Indigenous storytelling." --Sarah Eagle Heart, CEO of Native Americans in Philanthropy "Living on the Borderlines is a hauntingly beautiful collection of stories of contemporary women and girls who live in the spaces between the reservations and traditional Indigenous territories and rural and urban communities stretching across western New York to the Blue Ridge Mountains, and beyond, to the island of Haida Gwaii off the coast of British Columbia. Despite the family choices, personal losses, intergenerational and historical traumas that separate Melissa Michal's characters across time and space, both they and their stories are woven together by their ancestral bloodlines, spirits and voices that dance and dream, spelunk and sing them from the past, through the present, and into a resurgent future. Michal's debut is a stunning achievement." --Nikki Dragone, visiting assistant professor of Native American studies, Dickinson College "Enlightening and thought-provoking, Michal's stories are a pleasure to read and absorb." --Booklist

Description for Sales People

Native American authors and subject matter are still very under-represented in literature. Interest in short stories is on the rise. Understated prose and settings highlight the harsh, mundane reality of working-class life. Although focusing on members of the Seneca Nation, Michal lookes into different tribal heritages.

Details ISBN1936932466 Author Melissa Michal Pages 256 Year 2019 ISBN-10 1936932466 ISBN-13 9781936932467 Short Title Living on the Borderlines Language English Format Paperback Subtitle Stories DEWEY 813.6 Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New York Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2019-03-28 US Release Date 2019-03-28 UK Release Date 2019-03-28 Publication Date 2019-03-28 Publisher Feminist Press at The City University of New York Audience General AU Release Date 2019-05-20 We've got this

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