Janet Campbell Hale is the author of The Owl's Song, The Jailing of Cecilia Capture, and Women on the Run.

"Mesmerizing." —New York Times Book Review

"In this set of eight brooding but brave essays, she confronts the painful facts not only of her life but of the tragically difficult lives of several generations of her female relatives. . . . As Hale delves into her past, she perceives the deep roots of her struggle for survival and achievement, and recognizes the unseverable bond that connects her to her culture." —Booklist

"Hale has endured loneliness, racism, physical violence, and poverty to emerge as an outstanding novelist who has fulfilled her childhood drive to write with intensity, clarity, and honesty. Bloodlines is a gripping, haunting story of the personal consequences of being an Indian woman who is trying to define her identity in a white society." —Journal of Women's History