“Between the Lines” from ANCESTOR APPROVED, INDIAN SHOES, ON A WING AND A TEAR, and RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME feature overlapping characters. The first three stories feature Ray and Grampa Halfmoon, Melanie Roberts, and her mother. The last two feature Cassidy Rain Berghoff, her brother Fynn, their father, Fynn’s love interest Natalie, and the Berghoff family dog, Chewie.

Map of Hannesburg by Mark G. Mitchell.