Returning to Earth

New York, N.Y: Grove Press, Berkeley. California: Publishers Group West, 2007. Publisher's Advance. Octavo in off-white illus wraps; 280 pages; 22 cm. Fine, possibly with soiling to exterior (or maybe part of the artwork). Paperback. ISBN: 0802118380 ((hardcover)); 9780802118387

Contents: pt. I. Donald -- pt. II. K -- pt. III. David -- pt. IV. Cynthia.

In the aftermath of a Chippewa-Finnish man's death from Lou Gehrig's disease, his wife, daughter, and brother-in-law read the family history he has left behind, study his philosophies about death, and struggle to redeem their own pasts.

Death -- Fiction. Indians -- Mixed descent -- Fiction. Families -- Fiction. Memory -- Fiction. American fiction -- 21st century. Indians -- Mixed descent -- Fiction. Sclérose latérale amyotrophique -- Patients -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Familles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Roman américain -- 21e siècle. American fiction. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients. Death. Families. Indians -- Mixed descent. Memory. Mort -- Romans. Amyotrophie -- Romans. Mémoire -- Romans. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients -- Fiction. Death -- Fiction. Native Americans -- North America -- Fiction. Racially mixed people -- Fiction. Family life -- Fiction. Memory -- Fiction. Biographical fiction. Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 2007. Time: 2000-2099 Geographic: Upper Peninsula (Mich.) -- Fiction. Supérieure, Péninsule (Mich.) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Michigan -- Upper Peninsula. Upper Peninsula (Mich.) -- Fiction. General Info: