Insufficiency of Maps

by Nora Pierce

Genres: General Fiction; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Struggling with poverty and limited opportunities in the reservation trailer home of her alcoholic parents, Native American schoolgirl Alice is placed with a white foster family in the suburbs when her mother succumbs to schizophrenia, a situation that challenges her senses of culture and identity. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.

Release date: April 17, 2007

Publisher: Atria Books

Print pages: 224