Habila, HelonFawley, Will2013-09-062013-09-062013-09-06https://hdl.handle.net/1920/8412This thesis is a novel about a Native American girl named Angela, who lives with her grandmother, until one day Grandmother vanishes. In the wake of her grandmother’s disappearance, Angela notices that the scars on her back have split open and wings are beginning to grow from the wounds. She soon realizes that the wings and her grandmother’s disappearance are somehow connected, and begins searching for Grandmother in an attempt to figure out what secrets are twisted in the roots of her family tree and what kind of future exists for a girl with wings.enYoung adult novelShapeshiftingNative fictionStorytellingFolkloreThesis