Description - A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story by Diane Glancy
- Continues Glancy's signature poetic investigation of suffering, identity, and Indigenous history, as in her 2020 work, Island of the Innocent: A Consideration of the Book of Job, and her 1998 novel, Pushing the Bear.
- Glancy's status as a mentor and teacher of generations of native writers working today.
- This is a story of Arctic exploration, of bravery, strength, will, and danger, told from the point of view of a woman and a mother.
- Published upon the 100th anniversary of the expedition.
- It is the story of an Indigenous Inuit woman.
- A meditation on history, memory, writing, and the archive, which includes a creative use of historical materials, including passages and facsimile pages from the real diary.
- Cover artwork by Anne Kingsbury, who cofounded and directs the Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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