2024 Openbook Award - Book of the Year
Starting from personal life experience, linking the female experience and situation in family history and tribal history, it proposes a profound reflection and observation on colonial history, ethnicity and patriarchal system.
The tribe is filled with ominous whispers. During the ancient funeral, eagles appear one after another, symbolizing the escort of the ancestors. The young granddaughter hastily succeeded the tribe leader, but the succession path of the tribe's witches had long been broken... Among the elders' relics, the young tribe leader found an ancient wooden comb and hairpin, which opened up the tenacious life history of three generations of indigenous women in the tribe...
Paperback / 320 pages