JOHN SAYLES

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Fri Jan 24 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

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Copperfield’s Books - Santa Rosa | Santa Rosa, CA

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One of America’s greatest storytellers sheds light on an American tragedy. Join us for the launch of To Save The Man in Santa Rosa!
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SANTA ROSA --

Copperfield’s Books welcomes John Sayles to Montgomery Village for the launch of his electrifying new book - .

The discussion will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.

This is a free event, registration recommended.

In the vein of Never Let Me Go and Killers of the Flower Moon, one of America’s greatest storytellers sheds light on an American tragedy: the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the ‘cultural genocide’ experienced by the Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle School, a military-style boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania, founded and run by Captain Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt considers himself a champion of Native Americans. His motto, “To save the man, we must K*ll the Indian,” is severely enforced in both classroom and dormitory: Speak only English, forget your own language and customs, learn to be white.

As the young students navigate surviving the school, they begin to hear rumors of a “ghost dance” amongst the tribes of the west—a ceremonial dance aimed at restoring the Native People to power, and running the invaders off their land. As the hope and promise of the ghost dance sweeps across the Great Plains, cynical newspapers seize upon the story to whip up panic among local whites. The US government responds by deploying troops onto lands that had been granted to the Indians. It is an act that seems certain to end in slaughter.

As news of these developments reaches Carlisle, each student, no matter what their tribe, must make a choice: to follow the white man’s path, or be true to their own way of life...

Author: John Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996). He has written eight novels, the most recentbeing Yellow Earth (2020) and Jamie Macgillivray: The Renegade’s Journey (2023), which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.

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