Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook Yuchi Mara thinks she'll finally make

Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them

A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s

"—San Francisco Chronicle

Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook Yuchi Mara thinks she'll finally makeAn intimate and engaging Native food memoir. In these coming of age tales set on the Menominee Indian Reservation of the 1980s and 1990s, Thomas Pecore Weso explores the interrelated nature of meals and memories. As he puts it, "I cannot separate foods from the moments in my life when I first tasted them." Weso's stories recall the foods that influenced his youth in northern Wisconsin: subsistence meals from hunted, fished, and gathered sources; the