It's never too late to be more "you" than you were before.

As a fierce nor’easter bears down on her Massachusetts town, Fiona Richter places a frantic 911 call. Her husband, Simon, eighty years old and suffering from dementia, has gone missing from the house—along with his clarinet.

So begins The Singing Stick, the story of a son, his long-dead mother, and the music that anchors them both in times of great unmooring.

"A startling tour de force."

cover of The Singing Stick

“Heartrending story of an Indigenous family’s multigenerational trauma . . . a startling tour de force.”

—BookLife Reviews
(Editor’s Pick)

“A deeply thoughtful novel about finding one’s voice when all has seemingly been lost.”

—Indie Today
(five stars)

“Cole-Dai confronts harsh realities with the deftness of a true storyteller. A remarkable achievement."

—Colin Mustful,
founder/editor,
History Through Fiction

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