Good Stones

ISBN-10: 0395251540
ISBN-13: 9780395251546
Category: Abenaki Indians
Pages: 204
Language: English
Published: 1977
Author: Anne Merrick Epstein

Description

An aging ex-con who lives as a hermit joins with a twelve-year-old, half-breed orphan and together they make a life for themselves surviving the elements and the rejection of society.

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