The winner of Sweden's most prestigious literary award makes her American debut with an epic, multigenerational novel-in-verse about two S嫥i families and their quest to stay together across a century of migration, violence, and colonial trauma. In Northern S嫥i, the word dnan means the land, the earth, and my mother. These are all crucial forces within the lives of the Indigenous families that animate this groundbreaking book: an astonishing verse novel that chronicles a hundred years of change: a book that will one day stand alongside Halld鏎 Laxness's Independent People and Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter as an essential Scandinavian epic. The tale begins in the 1910s, as Ristin and her family migrate their herd of reindeer to summer grounds. Along the way, forced to separate due to the newly formed border between Sweden and Norway, Ristin loses one of her sons to a deadly accident, a loss that will ripple across the rest of this book. In the wake of this tragedy, Ristin struggle
