A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story
Diane Glancy
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- Continues Glancy’s signature poetic investigation of suffering, identity, and Indigenous history, as in her 2020 work, Island of the Innocent: A Consideration of the Book of Job, and her 1998 novel, Pushing the Bear.
- Glancy's status as a mentor and teacher of generations of native writers working today.
- This is a story of Arctic exploration, of bravery, strength, will, and danger, told from the point of view of a woman and a mother.
- Published upon the 100th anniversary of the expedition.
- It is the story of an Indigenous Inuit woman.
- A meditation on history, memory, writing, and the archive, which includes a creative use of historical materials, including passages and facsimile pages from the real diary.
- Cover artwork by Anne Kingsbury, who cofounded and directs the Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Contributor Bio
Diane Glancy is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and professor emeritus at Macalester College. Her works have won the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, a Juniper Prize for Poetry, and an American Book Award. In 2018, Publishers Weekly named her book Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears one of the ten essential Native American novels. Her 2020 work, Island of the Innocent: A Consideration of the Book of Job continues and deepens a lifelong exploration of the religious and cultural dimensions of identity.
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