My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting In Extinction: Saami-American Non-Fiction, Fiction, and Poetry

by Ron Riekki

Overview

In My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I am Melting in Extinction, Ron Riekki presents a collection of non-fiction, short stories, and poetry about the Karelian- and Saami-American experience. In true nomadic fashion, his writing takes the reader to Kuusamo, Utah, Berkeley, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Lake Mohave, Yosemite, Karelia, and a hazmat facility where all the animals on site have been forgotten. A mix of Anselm Hollo, Gregory Orr, Eric Torgersen, and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Riekki’s writing forces the Saami-American voice to be heard, a voice that some might not even realize exists. It does. Furiously.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781627202121
Publisher:	Apprentice House
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	793,968
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Ron Riekki is the author of U.P.: a novel and Posttraumatic: A Memoir. He edited five anthologies: The Way North (Michigan Notable Book), Here (Independent Publisher Book Award), And Here, Undocumented, and The Many Lives of The Evil Dead. He’s published his writing in The Threepenny Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Wigleaf, Spillway, Poetry Northwest, and many other literary journals. Riekki is Saami-American, Karelian-American, and Finnish-American. If he ever got a tattoo, it’d say Sisu. His home is the north. The far north. No, farther than that.