The Insufficiency of Maps

Nora Pierce

earliest edition we have, 2007 Simon & Schuster, Limited, 2007

Alice is five when she and her homeless, mentally ill mother, Amalie, arrive at Papi's trailer in an Arizona Indian reservation to live. Papi may or may not be Alice's father, but he adores Amalie (who is of Kwytz'an descent) and has been waiting for her to return after years of hospitalization-related absence. Alice briefly attends the local reservation school before her mother's visions and paranoia prompt them to...

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The Insufficiency of Maps paperback · 2008 · Washington Square Press · 224 pages · 9780743292085
Insufficiency of Maps edition · 2007 · Simon & Schuster, Limited · 9781416539414
The Insufficiency of Maps hardcover · 2007 · Atria · 217 pages · 9780743292078

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