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Name: Green Grass, Running Water

Author: Thomas King
Year: 1993
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Popularity: 2.3
Genres/categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism
Culture: Canada

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ISBN:
9780553373684
0553373684
Strong, sassy women and hard-luck, hard-headed men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by award-winning author Thomas King. Alberta, Eli, Lionel and others are coming to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance. There they will encounter four Indian elders and their companion, the trickster Coyote'??and nothing in the small town of Blossom will be the same again. . . .
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