m.s. RedCherries

Finalist, 2024 National Book Awards

m.s. RedCherries received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a JD from Arizona State University’s College of Law. She is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and lives in Brooklyn. Learn more >

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mother

ISBN 9780143137832
Penguin Books / Penguin Random House

mother is a work rooted in an intimate fracture: an Indigenous child is adopted out of her tribe and raised by a non-Indian family. As an adult finding her way back to her origins, our unnamed narrator begins to put the pieces of her birth family’s history together through the stories told to her by her mother, father, sister, and brother, all of whom remained on the reservation where she was born. More about this book >

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m.s. RedCherries

m.s. RedCherries received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a JD from Arizona State University’s College of Law. She is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and lives in Brooklyn.

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