Sunset Park Book Discussion: Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah

Thu, Aug 14 2025
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Sunset Park Library

adult learning book club book discussion

Join us for a discussion of Oscar Hokeah's Calling for a Blanket Dance, "a moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young native American man struggling to find strength in his familial identity."

Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they soldier through a myriad of difficulties: his father's sudden kidney failure and subsequent disability, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband, the constant resettlement of the family, and Ever's own bottled-up rage at the instability all around him. Meanwhile, all of Ever's relatives have ideas about who he is and who he should be. His Cherokee grandmother urges the family to move across the state to find security; his dying grandfather hopes to reunite him with his heritage through traditional gourd dances; his Kiowa cousin reminds him that he's connected to an ancestral past. And once an adult, Ever must take the strength given to him by his relatives to save not only himself, but also the next generation of family.

How will this young man visualize a place for himself when the world hasn't given him a place to start with? Honest, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting, Calling for a Blanket Dance is the story of how Ever Geimausaddle found his way to home.
 

Copies are available for checkout from the main floor customer service desk. 

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