and with ourselves

covered most of the year under snow and ice

A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy

As a storyteller

Seven Aunts oral history and with ourselvesPart memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century. They were German and English, Anishinaabe and French, born in the north woods and Midwestern farm country. They moved again and again, and they fought for each other when men turned mean, when money ran out, when babiesand there were so manyadded more trouble but even more love.