Theatre of Chance (Paperback)
Native Celebrities of Nothing in an Existential Colony
Pages: 188
ISBN: 9780819501554
Published: 4th February 2025
Casemate UK Academic
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Native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation search for the meaning of life
Theatre of Chance is the final novel in the series that started with Blue Ravens, and continued with Waiting for Wovoka, about a group of native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. The characters continue their adventures from the White Earth Reservation to an existential colony: the urban reservation in Minneapolis. Basile, the native elder, has become an editorial writer, and the stowaways continue their creative puppet parleys in the context of the historical moment, enduring with ironic parleys the election of Richard Nixon as president. Dummy Trout and the stowaways secure a houseboat and with the loyal mongrels return to French Portage Narrows in Lake of the Woods, the birthplace of Dummy Trout. There, for the first time in more than seventy years she whispers a few words, ending the shamanic silence of her marvelous encounters on the White Earth Reservation and in the native existential colony of Minneapolis.