The collection illuminates the creative process

rather than the reverse

" The book is concerned with nature

It is a longing for home

Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow was born on the Mattaponi Reservation in West Point

Old School Indian indigenous crafts The collection illuminates the creativeA coming of middle age novel about an Ahkweshsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal. Abe Jacobs is Kanien'keh ka from Ahkweshsne or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen Abe left the reservation where he was raised and never looked back. Now forty three, Abe is suffering from a rare disease one his doctors in Miami believe will kill him. Running from his diagnosis and a failing marriage, Abe