Sweetgrass and Smoke

About the Book

Sweetgrass and Smoke is an experimental book that will interest all readers of Ernest Hemingway and his relationships with Native Americans. The American Indians and the rich descendants of English settlers cross cultural lines in the novel part of this book that is set in the repressive Fifties in an exclusive resort town in northern Michigan. This post-modern book also documents Ernest Hemingway’s first love affair with an American Indian girl (Prudence Bolton). The background material mixed into Sweetgrass and Smoke comes from such diverse sources as Native American texts, prehistory theories, letters, newspaper clippings, death records, and Hemingway biographies.

About the Author

Constance Cappel, PhD compiled and edited A Union of Voices: Accounts of the Union Institute & University. She is both a writer and an educator having received her PhD in 1991 from the Union Institute & University. Dr. Cappel is presently the Vice0president of the Graduate Alumnae/i Board of the UI&U. She served on the GAB board from 1991-94 and again was elected to be on from 1999-2005. As the author of Utopian Colleges, she was asked many times to write a history of UI&U. She used the six oral histories gathered for the GAB board and let the others in this historical compellation speak in their own voices.