Book Review: Razor, Peter. (2001). While the Locust Slept: A memoir. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press.

In his compelling memoir, While the Locust Slept, a Minnesota Book Award Winner, Peter Razor gives a personal voice to the often unspoken heartbreak and loss that is shared by thousands of American Indian parents and grandparents who grew up away from kin and community. Writing in his seventies and compelled by realizations that his childhood experiences were affecting his own children and grandchildren, Razor reminds readers that the effects of dislocation from family and culture do not fade with the passage of time.