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This groundbreaking collection provides fascinating stories of wisdom

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A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy

Seven Aunts oral history covered most of the yearPart memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century. They were German and English, Anishinaabe and French, born in the north woods and Midwestern farm country. They moved again and again, and they fought for each other when men turned mean, when money ran out, when babiesand there were so manyadded more trouble but even more love.