Tag: Indigenous fiction
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Book Review – The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Set mainly in 1950s rural North Dakota, The Night Watchman is a captivating historical fiction centering around a controversial bill about to be put forward to congress. This bill claims to be about emancipation for Native Americans, but in fact aims to take away what little land they already have. One of our main protagonists,…
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Book Review – A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter
A Grandmother Begins the Story is a powerful and unique novel that tells the story of one fractured Métis family through a chorus of voices. We meet five generations of women, including voices coming through from the afterlife: Carter, Allie, Lucie, Geneviève, Velma and Mamé, with whom our story begins. Alongside their stories runs the…
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Book Review – Stealing by Margaret Verble
9-year-old Kit Crockett lives in rural 1950s America with her father, with whom she is close, but both are dealing with the grief of her mother’s death and somehow unable to comfort each other. Passing her spare time fishing and reading books, Kit lives a quiet life until a mysterious and beautiful woman moves into…
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Book Review – The Break
A young woman holding her baby at night looks out the window into the darkness and witnesses what she believes to be a devastating act of violence occurring on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house. Moving back and forth in time, The Break by Katherena Vermette…
The Resting Willow 