Legendary Frybread Drive-In
Intertribal Stories
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the world’s best frybread.
The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating feast, including traditional eats and tasty snacks. But Sandy June's serves up more than food: it hosts live music, movie nights, unexpected family reunions, love long lost, and love found again.
That big green-and-gold neon sign beckons to teens of every tribal Nation, often when they need it most.
Featuring stories and poems by: Kaua Mahoe Adams, Marcella Bell, Angeline Boulley, K. A. Cobell, A. J. Eversole, Jen Ferguson, Eric Gansworth, Byron Graves, Kate Hart, Christine Hartman Derr, Karina Iceberg, Cheryl Isaacs, Darcie Little Badger, David A. Robertson, Andrea L. Rogers, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and Brian Young.
In partnership with We Need Diverse Books.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The magical titular food truck of this reverent compendium provides the setting for 17 loosely linked stories about Indigenous teens navigating evergreen concerns about love, life, and identity. Featuring works by authors such as K.A. Cobell, Jen Ferguson, Cheryl Isaacs, and more, the assemblage, edited by Smith (Harvest House), centers Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In, a food vendor outside of time and space that seemingly appears wherever and whenever a teen requires wisdom. In genre-hopping selections spanning varying narrative formats and international locales, characters meet at Sandy June's to spend time with deceased grandparents and estranged cousins, as well as confront situations of abuse and reconciliation. Byron Graves's amorous story "Love Buzz" follows a musician hoping to woo his crush with a special Valentine's Day performance; Brian Young's tale "I Love You, Grandson" sees a grieving teen finding comfort in communing with the food truck's staff. Smith's uplifting poem "Open Mic at the Drive-In" closes this liminal-feeling collection, which pays tribute to the Native traditions and intergenerational relationships preserved by the "run-down, neon" drive-in, including frying bread, sipping sweetgrass tea, and "jammin' to Redbone./ Uncles tunin' sharp fiddles." A glossary concludes. Ages 13–up.
