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Designs of the night sky / Diane Glancy.

by Glancy, Diane.

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University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

Women storytellers -- Fiction.

Women librarians -- Fiction.

Cherokee women -- Fiction.

Storytelling -- Fiction.

Oklahoma -- Fiction.

Native storiers.

9780803221901 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780803238206 (pbk.)

xiv, 157 p. ; 22 cm.

The library -- Greasy gravy -- Paragraphs -- There were the old days of the Indian removal -- A call -- Encampment -- The Dust Bowl (1) -- Before -- 7th April, 1838 -- The seven clans of the Cherokee Nation -- The dream -- Jesus -- Lifted -- The nests of boats -- A new sacred ground -- The stars as roller rinks -- Whaling -- Arrival -- The parents' house -- The librarian -- More of the old days of removal -- At the Iguana Café -- Late -- Captives -- Knife fight -- The dream (2) -- The lost boyfriend -- The outing -- The fort -- The sky blowing with stars -- Raking -- Grace -- The dream (3) -- The truthettes (2) -- To kill -- The truthettes (3) -- Bed -- Journal of occurrences -- The Observer -- The truthettes (4) -- The Oklahoma twisters (whirlwinds) -- Revelation -- Leviathan -- There is a voice I don't listen to -- The dispossessed -- Crying is my river (Psalm 42) -- Untitled (1) -- Untitled (2) -- The dream (4) -- Buffalo cookies -- The wake -- Church camp -- A story within in a story -- Poor Sarah (1) -- The dream (5) -- A framed narrative -- Poor Sarah (2) -- Ether's testimony at church camp -- The fight -- Close -- The rebuilt -- Cartoon -- The overhang -- Nolie starts her report for high school -- The other dust bowl -- Relocation -- Photo album -- The dream of my mother somewhere -- The head library -- The dust bowl (2) -- Creation myths for the written word -- The dream (6) -- Designs of the night sky -- The voices -- Sequoyah's cabin -- Noel starts her first report for college -- The spell -- Indentation -- Indention -- Location -- Intermediaries.

"In this innovative novel, a librarian of Cherokee ancestry rekindles and reinvents her Native identity by discovering the rhythm and spark of traditionally told stories in the most unusual places in the modern world. Ada Ronner, a librarian at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, hears books speak and senses their restless flow as they circulate. The same relentless energy and liberation of the story is also felt by Ada as she roller-skates at the Dust Bowl, a local skating rink, floating far ahead of her husband, Ether, a physics professor. Hearing 'the old Cherokee voices' when she skates and works in the Manuscript and Rare Book room in the library, Ada grows increasingly aware of the continuing power of Cherokee tradition today. Coming from a culture based in oral tradition, Ada discovers the potentially liberating role of the written word, and she finds her own empowerment as its promulgator and reinventor in the twenty-first century. Designs of the Night Sky moves between the turbulent history of a tribe and the experiences of the survivors of that history still caught in turmoil. Rolling from past to present and present to past, Diane Glancy's story provokes and illumines while it invites us to reconsider the form and effect of Native American stories in today's world. "--Publisher.

Psychological fiction.

Women's fiction.

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