LaRose Cherokee Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story

Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir's 10th anniversary with updates to the text

and poetry

Both stories follow the lives of young men who have dreams for a better future

Selected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series

LaRose Cherokee Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful storyIn this literary masterwork, the author of the National Book Award winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic accident, a demand for justice, and a profound act of atonement with ancient roots in indigenous culture. Inspiring and affecting, LaRose is a powerful exploration of loss, justice, and the reparation of the human