Sacred Folks: Stories [Paperback]

Sacred Folksbrings it all home in the final book of Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.’s urban Native Chicago story cycle. Disciples, demons, gods, gangbangers, and the city itself all meet up to tell unforgettable tales across time and neighborhoods. Our guide through the trilogy, Teddy, is right in the thick of things, and he recounts for us parts of the path to the end and explains how and maybe why we got here and where we might go after all.Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.(enrolled member Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians) is an Active HWA member whose work has been published inSouthwest Review,The Rumpus,Red Earth Review, theJournal of Working-Class Studies,Chicago Review,Apex Magazine,Electric Literature,Indian Country Today, and theMassachusetts Review, among others. He is also the author ofSacred Smokesand the editor ofThe Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones(both from UNM Press).“I love the way Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. writes about urban Native lives in Chicago. There is something so familiar about the lives he writes about, and what he is doing with language is so new and unexpected. He writes the city beautifully.”—Tommy Orange, author ofThere There“Strong trilogies don’t end, exactly. They arc up into the sky and just keep going, and those of us left here on the ground tilt our faces up to watch, and, because of books like this, we maybe find each other’s hands to hold, as well.”—Stephen Graham Jones, author ofThe Angel of Indian Lake“Strong trilogies don’t end, exactly. They arc up into the sky and just keep going, and those of us left here on the ground tilt our faces up to watch, and, because of books like this, we maybe find each other’s hands to hold, as well.”—Stephen Graham Jones, author ofThe Angel of Indian Lake“Not sl#-