Rose Quartz: Poems Upper Skagit A child who looks different

A child who looks different from her mother finds beauty and belonging in this new book from the creator of New York Times bestseller I Sang You Down from the Stars

December 12th

She is an original

chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live

part origin myth about the Messenger’s Feast – which is still celebrated in times of bounty among the Iñupiaq

Rose Quartz: Poems Upper Skagit A child who looks differentDraw me encircled in something other than gasoline. The poems of Rose Quartz hum with the naked energy of one who has found her way home after a journey rife with difficulty and who has the scars to show for it. In them, Sasha taqwblu LaPointe moves from intimate scenes of perila car accident, an unwelcome advance at a party, a miscarriageto the salvific, exhilarating punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and the centering shores of her Coast Salish