From: stephanie.greene.books_at_gmail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:18:20 -0500

This is slightly off-topic and I'm not even sure Tim Tingle is still involved in the conversation, but I just read "Saltypie, A Choctaw Journey from Darkness into Light." I'm curious to know why, if no one "saw the boy who threw the stone," the author decided it was a boy. Why not a girl or a man or a woman?

Stephanie Greene

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> On Feb 21, 2014, at 1:55 PM, jeanne_at_theroadrunnerpress.com wrote:
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> Fondrie (not sure if that is name or e-mail) you have pinpointed one of my personal favorite moments in the book -- a picture may say a thousand words but that moment said it all!
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> Jeanne
> The RoadRunner Press
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> Mr. Tingle:
> One of my favorite moments in the story (besides the "snowmonster" scene) is when Old Man is assigning duties at the new site in the swamp:
> "Young women will look for wild onions and berries. Older men will build houses, lean-tos. Winter is coming. We will spend the day working and have our first meal tonight."
> "What will the older women do?" a young man asked. Everyone grew very quiet. No one looked at him. They were too embarrassed. Old Man smiled.
> "The older women do not need me to tell them what to do," he said. (p. 20)
> I appreciate how you convey that very awkward moment (which we've probably all experienced at least once in our lifetimes) in just a few brief lines, not to mention how you express the status of the older women without saying anything at all.
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