By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee of the novel is 19-year-old Maud Slivenowicz, whose major source of knowledge is "Reader's Digest". Her mother, Evangeline, has five children by five different deadbeat fathers. Without a regular income, the Slivenowicz family dream of becoming movie stars, and at the end of the book it seems one of Maud's brothers might actually be given a role in a television commercial. The title of the book relates to a famous line in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha". By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee (1996) is a satirical novel by Tama
Hunkar (epic poem) Brahmaputra<br>" "Ganga and Yamuna - the nectar-swept streams<br>" "That flow to the blessed land<br>" "Are abundant with your melting compassion.<br>" "At the gates of that land,<br>" "You, the guardian of its borders,<br>" "Have challenged, 'You must cut off my head<br>" "Before you can trample over this land.<br>" "O pious sage, a great misfortune has fallen today<br>" "On that same land of piety!<br>" "Afflicted, the children are writhing<br>" "Bitten by countless snakes from four directions.<br>" "My king of mountains! My magnificent one!<br>" Hunkar (epic poem) Hunkar is an epic poem by Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'. "Himalaya" is from the collection "Hunkar"