Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past literary criticism Working in a complex territory

Working in a complex territory oscillating between representation

claiming his soul

An abandoned yearling moose is cared for by children who find him crying for his mother

Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury

at one time or another

Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past literary criticism Working in a complex territoryOne day I realized that my entire back seat was filled with relatives who wondered why I wasn't paying more attention to their part of the family story Sooner or later they all come up to the front seat and whisper stories in my ear. Growing up in the 1950s in suburban Minneapolis, Diane Wilson had a family like everybody else. Her Swedish American father was a salesman at Sears and her mother drove her brothers to baseball practice and went to parent