In the Night of Memory
A Novel

The first chapter of the book is so sad that I almost put it aside for another time, but the prose was beautiful so I kept reading. I also just had to know how the lives of two little girls abandoned to the County by their alcoholic mother would turn out. This first chapter is told by Azure Sky, the......more

Loretta, the mother, is ill prepared to provide much for her two daughters. She offers them one memory before relinquishing them to foster care. They all stand on a tiny porch. The girls wrapped in a blanket look to the night sky as their mother points to the northern lights. Transfixed, they watch......more

I have been on a mission to read books outside my culture and experience. And after reading There There by Tommy Orange, I have been on the lookout for more books about native culture written by native Americans. So when I saw In the Night of Memory by Linda LeGarde Grover, I knew I had to pick it u......more

Have you ever listened to an older family member tell you about something/someone in the family, the story rambles, bit and pieces are given that don't quite connect, and half of the people in the story you're too young to have ever met and don't remember? But you know that they are trying their har......more

This novel was one that I had a hard time putting down once I got started. The novel hooked me at once as I had to know what happened to Loretta's girls once she gave them up to the county. The next couple of chapters lost me a little as it gave a back story to what Loretta faced growing up. There w......more