01898cam a2200277 i 4500 1004847606 TxAuBib 20231109120000.0 230519s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023022891 9781643755182 HRD 28.00 1643755188 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Porter, Michelle, 1975-, author. A grandmother begins the story [BOOK] / Michelle Porter. First edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023. 322 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and rebuild their futures. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means. Allie, Carter's mother, is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother. Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her join her ancestors in the Afterlife. And Geneviève is determined to conquer her demons before the fire inside burns her up, with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without. Meanwhile, Mamé, in the Afterlife, knows that all their stories began with her; she must find a way to cut herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find their own paths forward. -Provided by publisher. 20231109. Métis women Fiction. Novels.