Shell Shaker language games She worked as a journalist

She worked as a journalist before enrolling in graduate school

Grounded in historical

Ranging in tone from humorous to defiant to triumphant

purposefully erased history and Native politics

Both stories follow the lives of young men who have dreams for a better future

Shell Shaker language games She worked as a journalistThe action in this debut novel alternates between 1738, as a Choctaw family prepares for war against the English, and the 1990s, as their Oklahoma descendants, the Billys, fight a Mafia takeover of the tribe's casino. In trouble with the law and in the fight of their lives, the Billy women must find a way, as their ancestors did, to join forces against a devious foe. Humor, toughness, and resourcefulness are the Billys' only weapons. Until the Shell