While the Locust Slept: A Memoir
Language: English
Published by Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001
Series: Book 2 of 4 - Native Voices
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Eatons Books and Crafts, Owatonna, MN, U.S.A.Eatons Books and Crafts
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Condition: Used - Fine
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Hardcover, with dust jacket, in Very Good condition, signed by the author with inscription to previous owner (For Jean Enjoy! Best wishes Peter Razor 7-29-2001), there are no other marks or writing, jacket has some scuffing and one small tear, book itself looks nice.
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- Title
- While the Locust Slept: A Memoir
- Author
- Peter Razor
- Publisher
- Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0873514017
- ISBN 13
- 9780873514019
- Series
- Book 2 of 4: Native Voices
Abandoned as an infant in 1930 at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Razor is raised by abusive workers who think of him as nothing more than "a dirty Injun" and endures years of beatings "with a broom or radiator brush - whatever was handy." One night, while he is asleep, one of the matrons attacks him with a hammer. In the wake of this savage beating, he finally receives a brief interlude of compassionate care in the hospital. As a teenager, he makes two failed attempts to run away from the orphanage.
He is labeled a troublemaker and indentured as a hired hand to a farm family. For a moment, it appears he may escape the grasp of abuse, but instead it is a deeper descent into darkness. The farmer beats him, clothes him in rags, and treats him like a slave, often working him to exhaustion without enough food. Remarkably, Razor struggles to attend high school and begins to dream of another life, but first he must endure the darkest and most vicious attack yet.
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