© 2010 by Linda LeGarde Grover

Athens, Georgia 30602

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Grover, Linda LeGarde.

The dance boots / Linda LeGarde Grover.

        p.       cm.— (Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction)

ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3580-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-8203-3580-0 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Ojibwa Indians—Fiction. 2. Minnesota—Fiction. I. Title. PS3607.R6777D36 2010

813’.6—dc22                                          2009051211

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