8 days until the divining season debuts
- Apr 6
- 2 min read
Dear friends and supporters of Aunt Lute,
We're nearing the release date of a new, important indigenous story. The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice debuts on April 14th!
“Girls appear and disappear, but so do women. We know this because blood talks to blood.”
The town of Larissa, Texas, has secrets. Native girls are going missing, decades-old conflicts are hiding just below the surface, and Emily Howard is speaking to her ancestors. At eleven years old, the peculiar Emily does not fit in. It might be her bizarre fear of doorways, or the strange illnesses that plague her, or the obvious fact that she is not a blood relative of her mother. Regardless, Emily’s arrival to Larissa, Texas, changes the search for the missing children and the way the women of Larissa relate to each other.
A story wrought with the griefs of womanhood, the burdens of ancestral trauma, and the realities of indigeneity in the United States, The Divining Season follows as the community of Larissa reels with its profound losses, and Emily discovers where in this tangled world of the living, the dead, and the missing that she fits in.
There's no better time than now for intersectional, feminist lit.
Warmly,
Your untamable friends at Aunt Lute Books
What early readers of The Divining Season are saying:
"The Diving Season is a gorgeously told story of identity and the pursuit of justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women through the compelling and complicated lens of Cherokee adoptee identity."
"This was a beautiful story that I'd say really focuses on the importance of history and the connections that can form when you share and remember people's stories and form a real community.”
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