Map of the world of Adam Bigmouth -- Prologue: Little Grand Rapids, 1932: Adam declines to conjure -- Boyhood memories -- Working for the Hudson's Bay Company -- Dream experiences -- Curing, helping, love medicine, and an old man's jealousy -- Northern Barred Owl, man of many powers -- Gender, power, and the problematics of incest -- The challenges and risks of being female -- Bad medicine and old men's threats -- Starvation threatened and real -- Encounters and contests with windigos -- Human beings made into windigos -- The curing of windigos -- The costs of mockery and cruelty -- Magical medicines and powers -- Afterword: cousins and connections, power and succession, seeking life. |