Gichigami: A Novel

Winner, Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award

An eerie coming-of-age story of a young girl’s quest for her absent mother across the frozen terrain of Lake Superior

One December evening, when 13-year-old Marta crosses the frozen Lake Superior and reaches the home she shares with her father, she finds a woman standing at their door. As Marta approaches, she realizes the woman, who looks like a tropical bird caught in the snow, is her mother who’d abruptly left them six years before. Marta hopes thi...