01503cam a2200337 4500 339256616 TxAuBib 20100707120000.0 060912s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006-50802 9780802118387 0802118380 (OCoLC)71369560 TxAuBib Harrison, Jim, 1937- Returning to Earth / Jim Harrison. 1st ed. New York : Grove Press, 2007. 280 p. ; 22 cm. Amazon.com Word Count - 84585. Slowly dying of Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Donald, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, begins dictating family stories he has never shared with anyone, hoping to preserve history for his children. The dignity of Donald’s death and his legacy encourages his loved ones to find a way to redeem—and let go of—the past, whether through his daughter’s emersion in Chippewa religious ideas or his mourning wife’s attempt to escape the malevolent influence of her own father. 20070508. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Patients Fiction. Death Fiction. Indians Mixed descent Fiction. Family Fiction. Memory Fiction. Native Americans Fiction. Upper Peninsula (Mich) Fiction. ALEML