Her recurring dreams portend danger, and their peculiar unraveling makes her gravely ill until she takes her healing into her own hands.īerit, a young woman living in 1902, struggles with the long absences of her fisherman husband. Grey Rabbit, a 17th-century Ojibwe woman, lives in a tribal community with her sons, husband, and mother-in-law, just before the “white-faced man” paddles ashore. These three women seem to have very little in common. Although the lake never assumes the role of main character in these story lines, it’s a dominant presence, like a family member whose tempestuous nature rises up infrequently but unpredictably, and as a result possesses all of the power in the room. The book follows three different women, living in very different times, along Superior’s coast.
It’s an ambitious piece of fiction by this Duluth resident, not because the story line captures the fury of Superior - the storms and shipwrecks that are part of its legend - but rather the lake’s quiet, constant power that makes human drama so small in comparison. Danielle Sosin’s first novel, which plumbs the lyrical depths of Lake Superior, won this year’s prestigious Milkweed National Fiction Prize.
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