Seven Aunts

Seven Aunts is a celebration of the women in author Staci Drouillard's  family who struggled to escape a remarkable legacy. They were German and English, Anishinaabe and French, born in the north woods and Midwestern farm country. These are the aunties: Faye, who lived in California, and Lila, who lived just down the street; Doreen, who took on the bullies taunting her 'mixed-blood' brothers and sisters; Gloria, who raised six children (no thanks to all of her 'stupid husbands'); Betty, who left a marriage to a misogynistic southerner to find love and acceptance with a Norwegian logger; and Carol and Diane, who broke the warped molds of their own upbringing.

From the fabric of these women's lives, Staci Lola Drouillard stitches a colorful quilt, its brightly patterned pieces as different as her aunties, yet alike in their warmth and spirit and resilience, their persistence in speaking for their generation and their families.

Staci Lola Drouillard is a descendant of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. She lives and works in her hometown of Grand Marais, on Minnesota's North Shore of Lake Superior. Be sure to look at her earlier book that we also stock: Walking the Old Road- a People's History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe.