Books published by University of Nebraska Press

In 1966, twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China's Cultural Revolution. A story of coming of age in the midst of monumental historical upheaval, this work is a memoir of a young man's harrowing experience during a time of terror. It recounts how Shen escaped, again and again, from his appointed fate.

A memoir of life, experience, and education of a Lakota child in the late 1800s. The author describes the home life and education of Indian children. Like other boys, he played with toy bows and arrows in the tipi before learning to make and use them and became schooled in the ways of animals and in the properties of plants and herbs.

Tells a story of a lonely woman who seeks a connection at a Brazilian spa. This work offers the reader fresh definitions of happiness and mature love - or perhaps the reassurance that in life, nothing is ever quite as terrible as one fears or quite as glorious as one remembers.

In December 1988 the author was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain, leaving him totally disabled and utterly changed. This book presents a picture of what it is like to find oneself possessed of a ravaged memory and unstable balance, and confronted by wholesale changes in both cognitive and emotional powers.

Presents an anthology of autobiographical accounts, by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features an introduction by the editors and biographical sketches for each writer.

Presents the story of Alma Hogan Snell, a Crow woman brought up by her grandmother, the famous medicine woman Pretty Shield.

Erotic entanglements, startling revelations, a furtive intruder, even a possible murder? Not at all what the students of mind control class envisioned when they gathered on a ranch outside Buenos Aires for a relaxing weekend. But here nothing is what it seems, least of all Magdalena herself.