Old School Indian

by Aaron John Curtis

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420525939
Publisher:	Thorndike Press Large Print
Publication date:	08/27/2025
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Aaron John Curtis is an enrolled member of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, which he'll tell you is the white name for the American side of Akwesasne. Aaron has judged for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance prizes, the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Since 2004, Aaron has been Quartermaster at Books & Books, Miami’s largest independent bookstore. He lives in Miami.

Editorial Reviews

A beautiful, hilarious, heartbreaking book, which we so love for how piercingly and warmly and wittily it bears witness—to what we talk about as the protest of existing, to the right to remake and reimagine our own myths, not only when but especially when they are so often appropriated, corrupted, erased, fed back to us in ways we no longer recognize or, even worse, recognize too well. Old School Indian speaks so powerfully (as young Abe, older Abe, and as the indelible Dominick Deer Woods) to all these themes and does so with the humor and heart we know comes from resilience.” —Hillman Grad Books

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