The Miss Hobbema pageant

Summary: The Miss Hobbema Pageant marks the triumphant return of Silas Ermineskin and Frank Fencepost in fourteen stories portraying both the lighter and darker sides of life on the Ermineskin Indian Reserve. Frank and Silas's outrageous pranks still hold center stage in bloodless battles with beauty-pageant managers, corrupt band politicians and pizza ovens. But around these wry fables, Kinsella weaves Silas's own searching tales of his family and friends--a rebellious sister trying to grow up too fast, an estranged father whose honour Silas perhaps fatally challenges, a young urban Native who buries himself in an underground vault to inspire the mystic dreams of his tribe. These stories of laughter, love and longing mark a high point in W. P. Kinsella's portrayal of the feisty heroes and heroines he champions in his stories of Native people.