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001			1428998330
003			OCoLC
005			20250919162420.0
008			240725s2025 nyu 000 1 eng d
010			_a2024033705
020			_a9781668045510
035			_a(OCoLC)1428998330
040			_cAJMM
041	1		_aeng _hswe
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050	0	0	_aPT9877.22.A47 _bS7713 2025
100	1		_aLaestadius, Ann-Helén, _eauthor. _922575
240	1	0	_aStraff. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aPunished : _ba novel / _cAnn-Helén Laestadius ; translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles.
250			_aFirst Scribner trade paperback edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bScribner, _c2025.
300			_a433 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes reading group guide.
520			_a"In the 1950s near the Arctic Circle, seven-year-olds Jon-Ante, Else-Maj, Nilsa, Marge, and Anne-Risten are taken from their families. As children of Sami reindeer herders, the Swedish state has mandated they attend a "nomad school" where they are forbidden to speak their native language. As the children visit home only sporadically, their parents know little about the abuse they face, much of it at the hands of the housemother, Rita. Those who dare to speak up are silenced. Thirty years later, the five children have chosen different paths to cope with the past. Else-Maj holds strong in her Sami identity but has turned to religion for comfort, while Anne-Risten now goes by Anne to hide her heritage from friends. Nilsa herds reindeer like his father but harbors a lot of anger, and Jon-Ante struggles with traumatic memories from the school. Then there's Marge, who is about to adopt a daughter from Colombia, but can't help questioning if it's right to take a child from her homeland. Then suddenly, housemother Rita reappears. Now an old, frail woman claiming to have God on her side, she acts like nothing ever happened. But the five former students have neither forgotten nor forgiven her. As the narrative shifts between each of their perspectives, the novel asks: If you had the chance to punish the person who hurt you as a child, would you? Based on the author's family story, Punished is a searing novel about loss, memory, cultural erasure, and community that vibrates with righteous rage over one nation's greatest betrayals of its native people"-- _cProvided by publisher.
546			_aIn English, translated from the Swedish
650		0	_aChildren, Sami _vFiction. _922576
650		0	_aOff-reservation boarding schools _vFiction. _922577
650		0	_aBoarding schools _vFiction. _910225
650		0	_aAbused children _vFiction. _96153
650		0	_aPsychic trauma _vFiction. _913533
650		0	_aPunishment _vFiction. _922578
650		0	_aSami (European people) _zSweden _vFiction. _922579
650		0	_aMinorities _zSweden _vFiction. _922580
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9129
655		7	_aSocial problem fiction. _2lcgft _96158
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _950
700	1		_aWillson-Broyles, Rachel, _etranslator. _918437
907			_a.b207583973
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
999			_c30922 _d30922