DEBRA MAGPIE

EARLING’sKAL VISIT

Associate Professor

Through telling stories, you have a big voice in the world, and it’s not easily silenced

Debra Cecille Magpie Earling (born August 3, 1957 Spokane,Washington) is a Native American novelist,and short story writer . She is of the Bitterroot Salish tribe.

She graduated from the University of Washington , and from Cornell University with a Masters in English, and Master of Fine Arts in 1992.She teaches atUniversity of Montana.

Debra Magpie Earling's debut novel Perma Red is something of a

miracle. The University of Montana creative writing professor began writing it in 1984 and, over the years, it has been through at least nine different rewrites, trimmed from an epic-length 800 pages to a compact 288, burned to a crisp in a house fire, and rejected by publishers who loved the writing but thought the original ending too dark and brutal. Through it all, Earling persevered and the novel stands as a testament to her faith and patience

…..’With Perma Red, Debra Magpie Earling finally steps forward after two decades and delivers a book as permanently beautiful as the Montana landscape itself. I find it hard, if not impossible, to shake Earling's book from my mind.’ DAVID ABRAMS

……Louise longs to escape not only Baptiste, but also the reservation and the harsh Catholic schoolteachers; the "bad medicine" cast on her family by Baptiste's mother; the barren, snake-haunted landscape and the ever-present undercurrent of violence. In the course of the novel, Louise is always in motion -- literally and figuratively. She is running away from herself, but what is she running toward ?

Perma Red's chapters shift points of view between Charlie in the first person and Louise and Baptiste in the third -- as such, we're drawn most intimately into Charlie's mind. Lives are tangled, tension mounts, choices are made, characters die tragically and the land-scouring Montana wind continues to blow across the reservation without pity. More than anything, Perma Red charts the course of a spiritual journey; Louise, Baptiste and Charlie all reach their destinations by taking often-predictable steps.

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‘Our stories teach us that we must always work for a time when there will be no evil, no racial prejudice,no pollution,when once again everything will be clean and beautiful for the eye to behold-a time when spiritual,physical,mental and social values are inter-connected to form a complete circle.’ SALISH CULTURE COMMUNITY

Your stories inspired us very much.We enjoyed every minute of your story telling.We are all lucky to have this chance of meeting you and your childhood stories.We are looking forward to many more sharings with you KAL FAMILY.

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