Indian Affairs (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry Woiwode
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1971
- Setting: Northern Michigan
- Principal Characters: Christofer Van Eenanam, Ellen Strohe Van Eenanam, Beauchamp Nagoosa, Gaylin
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s
- Locales: Michigan
The Novel
Indian Affairs describes the internal and external events experienced by Chris and Ellen Van Eenanam as they live under primitive conditions in her grandparents’ hunting lodge in the wilderness of northern Michigan during a freezing winter in 1971. The novel is subtitled Book Two: The Native Son, identifying the work as the second volume of a planned trilogy by Woiwode. The first part, What I’m Going to Do, I Think, Book One: The Boy, published in 1969, tells the story of Chris and Ellen’s courtship, marriage, and honeymoon at the same...
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