"Elin Anna Labba's The Home of the Drowned paints a stunning portrait of the tenacity of an Indigenous people jarred, displaced, and neglected by so-called progress. In spare yet evocative prose, The Home of the Drowned contains not only the indelible story of a Sámi family's loss and struggle in an encroaching society that is contemptuous of their very existence, but also the deeply affecting relationship between defiant mother Rávdná and her daughter Iogá, two generations of Sámi women caught in times of change and adversity. Reading this decades-spanning epic, it's impossible not to be moved by countless heartbreaking passages describing the land, the Sámi way of life, and Iogá and Rávdná's fraught journey through a hostile world." --Jon Hickey, author of Big Chief " The Home of the Drowned is an exultant, elegiac novel about the healing power of home, seen through a community's experiences in the wake of environmental challenges." -- Foreword Reviews "Elizabeth Clark Wessel's English translation from Swedish and Sámi is a delight." -- Full Stop "A beautiful book written with knowledge and love." -- Reading Skywards "This beautifully written debut novel by a Sámi journalist and author from the Arctic region of Sweden is a must-read." -- St.

Paul Pioneer Press "[ The Home of the Drowned ] glimmers with evocative language, artfully translated by Wessel . Labba's wistful portrait lingers long after the final page." -- Publishers Weekly "Labba's beautiful prose - and Wessel's translation of it - shares truths just as real as those found in nonfiction." -- MinnPost "[ The Home of the Drowned ] was written with such tenderness and depth of feeling and the characters rendered in all their individual complexities, vulnerabilities, flaws, dreams, and strength of will undimmed in the face of their attempted erasure by the Swedish settler-colonist state." -- Stop and Smell the Books.