Book club discussion kit. a memoir / While the locust slept
(CD)

Title and statement of responsibility from book title page.

Includes discussion questions.

Waseca-Le Sueur Regional Library System. Includes 12 copies.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Book in bag is published by St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001.

Abandoned as an infant at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Peter Razor is raised by abusive workers who thought of him as nothing more than "a dirty Injun." Cut off from his family and his heritage, he turns inward, forced to learn about the world on his own. After failed attempts to run away from the orphanage, he is indentured by the state to an abusive, reclusive farm family. Beaten, poorly fed, clothed in rags, and worked like slave labor, he struggles to attend high school and begins to dream of another life. Razor's stark and often chilling story, devoid of self-pity, recalls with haunting clarity the years he, like the locust, patiently waited to awaken and emerge.