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𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 by Barbara Kingsolver
【回家之路】
「你必須嫁予非我族人。那是律法。所有我們認識的人都是鳥氏族，其他無一倖存。」
葛洛莉亞的曾祖母葛林，隨著一名騎著馬的男人離開了海瓦西谷的家園。她屬於一群長久以來逃避追捕、抵抗被捕的切羅基人（Cherokee）流亡部族之一。
數十年後，她的家人帶著「大母親」（Great Mam）踏上一趟返鄉公路之旅。然而，那片埋葬著祖先零散遺骨的土地，早已不再是她記憶中的模樣。
‘You have to marry outside your clan,’ she said. ‘That’s law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone.’
When Gloria’s great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left her home in the Hiwassee Valley of Tennessee, it was with a man on a stolen horse. She was one of the fugitive bands of Cherokee who’d resisted capture long ago.
Decades later, her family takes Great Mam on a road trip home. But the place that holds the scattered bones of her ancestors is no longer the land she remembers.
