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The books in this collection celebrate the richness and diversity of Indigenous Peoples in North America. Most of the creators featured in this collection are Indigenous. Some works of non-Indigenous authors and illustrators have also been included, as their work was made with meaningful cultural consultation in the spirit of learning and allyship. Check out a PDF of the catalogue below:
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NDN Coping Mechanisms
The follow-up collection from Griffin Poetry Prize–winning poet Billy-Ray Belcourt is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work.
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The brush strokes are cross-hatched in the sky, giving the appearance of downward motion, while the ground appears sponged.","id":25297522819131,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3128e617-962a-401e-ab39-501f8b9d9016.jpg?v=1744826744"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3128e617-962a-401e-ab39-501f8b9d9016.jpg?v=1744826744","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, 2024 Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry in English\u003cbr\u003e\nFinalist, 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\nFinalist, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Memorial Award\u003cbr\u003e\nFinalist, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Raymond Souster Award\u003cbr\u003e\nLonglist, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Pat Lowther Memorial Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCBC Best Poetry of 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI am made of centuries \u0026amp; carbohydrates\u003cbr\u003e\nthe development of my molars\u003cbr\u003e\nthe hunger the teeth grew\u003cbr\u003e\nhas been with me since childhood\u003cbr\u003e\nI can’t escape the mouths of others\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eBrandi Bird’s long-anticipated debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e, explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory that connect its author to their chosen kin, blood relatives, and ancestral lands. By examining kinship in broader contexts, these frank, transcendent poems expose binaries that exist inside those relationships, then inspect and tease them apart in the hope of moving toward decolonial future(s). Bird’s work is highly concerned with how outer and inner landscapes move and change within the confines of the English language, particularly the “I” of the self, a tradition of movement that has been lost for many who don’t speak their Indigenous languages or live on their homelands. By exploring the landscapes the poet does inhabit, both internally and externally, Bird’s poems seek to delve into and reflect their cultural lineages—specifically Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis—and how these transformative identities shape the person they are today.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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By exploring the landscapes the poet does inhabit, both internally and externally, Bird’s poems seek to delve into and reflect their cultural lineages—specifically Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis—and how these transformative identities shape the person they are today.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487011833","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487011833\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"brandi morin;our voice of fire;west coast","NumberOfPages":"96","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e marks the arrival of an endlessly moving and astounding voice in Indigenous poetry. I, for one, will be reading these poems for the rest of my life.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eBilly-Ray Belcourt, author of \u003cem\u003eA MINOR CHORUS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of A MINOR CHORUS","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"These poems are tender and surprising; they are holes travelling through time and space. They are able to shapeshift God into pills, prayers, seeds, and stars. \u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh \u003c\/em\u003ehas taken root in my mind and I'm happy to let it grow there.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eJessica Johns, author of \u003cem\u003eBad Cree\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Liz Howard, author of Letters in a Bruised Cosmos","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e, Brandi Bird maps the psychic space between ‘NDN compartmentalization’ and split prairies, from bus depots to ‘endocrine storms,’ from LiveJournal to a living history of relocation under land theft. ‘My body is not an empire but first contact happened at \/ birth’ and ‘I eat \/ until my mouth needles \/ the dark.’ With exacting lucidity, Bird’s lyrics chart the body as a reservoir for colonial malice, a site of resistance, and a conduit for a voice that is visceral, immediate, and uncompromising. An absolute triumph of a debut.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eLiz Howard, author of \u003cem\u003eLetters in a Bruised Cosmos\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Jessica Johns, author of Bad Cree","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBrandi is at the forefront of a wave of impressive new poetic talent emerging from Winnipeg, a group which includes Katherena Vermette, Hannah Green, and Chimwemwe Undi.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBrandi is at the forefront of a wave of impressive new poetic talent emerging from Winnipeg, a group which includes Katherena Vermette, Hannah Green, and Chimwemwe Undi.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"Drawing on their experience as a queer and Indigenous author, [Brandi Bird reveals], sharply and beautifully, the whiplash of coming of age in a time of contradiction—when reparations and profound systematic failures arrive on the same day.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"British Columbia Review","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Honest and transformative, these poems portray and reach beyond Prairie landscapes and wounded lives.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrairie Books NOW\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Bird’s clear, forceful voice stacks imagistic snippets in formally inventive poems and leaves the reader to intuit and feel through how they all fit together in an act of engaged, attentive witnessing.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tyee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is Bird’s gospel … They transform prayer into poetry.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBritish Columbia Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e is a sophisticated debut work … Over and over again, time is suspended in the poems, and in this state of timelessness, we are able to transcend the limitations of western linearity and thought and to reconnect with relationships that have been stunted or lost. 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The All + Flesh
Brandi Bird's frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory in this long-anticipated debut collection.
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Vermette’s poetics are sparse, haunting, and steeped in river story, and her poems come to me as river songs. There is a presencing rhythm to this work, revealing that which is and always has been, flowing right in front of us.” — \u003cstrong\u003eLeanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of This Accident of Being Lost\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of This Accident of Being Lost","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e“In river woman, Katherena Vermette marshals the maternal energy of the river to spin the lyric poem into something that is awash with vitality. This ethic of care, which each section bears and ricochets about, has at its core a project of repair or nourishment, not just of the natural, but of those of us entangled with it. This us, Vermette deftly shows, is not an empty thing, but is instead teeming with Indigenous life — ‘we are the earth you are hurting.’ We are the river and, in this, we are without end, regardless of what history swells in us. Pick up this book and listen for the musicality of our beautiful rebellion!” — \u003cstrong\u003eBilly-Ray Belcourt, author of This Wound is a World, winner of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of This Wound is a World, winner of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONALLY RESPECTED:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKatherena’s work has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies across the globe, including in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (Rosarium Press, Baltimore), and Kwe: Standing with Our Sisters (edited by Joseph Boyden, Penguin Random House Canada).\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRELEVANT AND TIMELY:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMuch attention has been drawn this year and last to Indigenous issues in North America, and in the United States particularly surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Indigenous voices and postcolonial issues are rising to the fore, and it’s becoming increasingly crucial to recognize and give space to these voices.\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONALLY RESPECTED:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKatherena’s work has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies across the globe, including in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (Rosarium Press, Baltimore), and Kwe: Standing with Our Sisters (edited by Joseph Boyden, Penguin Random House Canada).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRELEVANT AND TIMELY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMuch attention has been drawn this year and last to Indigenous issues in North America, and in the United States particularly surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Indigenous voices and postcolonial issues are rising to the fore, and it’s becoming increasingly crucial to recognize and give space to these voices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\\\/strong\u003e:\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"These spare, imagistic poems live up to the words of the Vietnamese spiritual leader Thich Nhat Hanh, quoted in an epigraph: ‘If our hearts are big, we can be like the river.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"A book that is at once deeply personal and politically charged.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Vermette’s new collection is a strong follow-up to her Governor General’s Award-winning debut, 2012’s North End Love Songs.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2018-09-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
river woman
Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.
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There may be violence in this novel, but there’s nothing ordinary about it.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eDrew Hayden Taylor, author of \u003cem\u003eTake Us to Your Chief\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Drew Hayden Taylor, author of Take Us to Your Chief","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e is a gripping debut novel that bewilders in the best way possible. Adriana Chartrand sparks a fire on the first page that steadily burns into a tremendous literary spectacle that transcends genre. I was riveted by the story and thoroughly impressed by the writing. This novel will stay with me for a long time.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eWaubgeshig Rice, author of \u003cem\u003eMoon of the Turning Leaves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Jesse Wente, author of Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"What a book! It’s utterly enthralling and unsettling to your bones. A wonderful haunt that creeps into your psyche in the best possible way. I feel like I know Dawn, which only makes the story creepier. A tremendous debut, and I can’t wait to read more.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eJesse Wente, author of \u003cem\u003eUnreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Francine Cunningham, author of God Isn’t Here Today","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An Ordinary Violence \u003c\/em\u003eby Adriana Chartrand is a compelling read that rockets off the page. From the first chapter, I was hooked and gleefully followed Dawn as she moved around the spaces she used to call home to figure out her new reality. The writing is poetic, truthful, and you can tell that Adriana has written a story from her heart. This book will be sure to surprise its readers!\" —\u003cstrong\u003eFrancine Cunningham, author of \u003cem\u003eGod Isn’t Here Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An Ordinary Violence \u003c\/em\u003eis surely a gripping and haunting novel, one that will hold you from the first word to the last, but what makes it so potent and memorable is the way Adriana Chartrand tells this story with such grace and humility. There is horror, and then there is \u003cem\u003ehorror\u003c\/em\u003e—\u003cem\u003eAn Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e has both. 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With this fresh and fearsome look at the contemporary Indigenous experience, Chartrand emerges at the forefront of our newest literary voices.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Demchuk, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Bone Mother\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRED X\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Waubgeshig Rice, author of Moon of the Turning Leaves","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003e\"An unsettling, lyrical, slow-burn of a novel that combines the best elements of atmosphere and horror. Weaving together a history of violence with spirituality and the supernatural, Chartrand has achieved something special here, a cacophony of style and genre that displays the immeasurable potential of Indigenous storytelling.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eDavid A. Robertson, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Theory of Crows\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"David A. 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An Ordinary Violence
Terrible things happen side by side with the ordinary.
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It will be years before this is fully realized by those who escape the scene or are thrown into adulthood by overdose or pregnancy. These lucky few will feel overwhelmingly, retroactively embarrassed by their one-time rock star fantasies. Olive can hear them bawling about their supposed betrayals as clouds of tobacco smoke and slurry syllables updraft skyward through the slightly parted window.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Olive forgives them their make-believe follies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are no better or worse than most of the half well-off, half grown-up humans she has met. They are just flawed and vulnerable to the pitch. Olive is no different. She has chased the white dragon into smoky rooms where grad students complained about unkindly thesis feedback while wearing thousand dollar watches. A holiday-tanned winter wrist, a baggie held aloft, another Volvo fob serving key bumps round the ring. Under such circumstances, Olive is for the most part silent. She can pass for one of them until she releases language into the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlive often holds her rural tongue for fear of being found out. She is not a card-carrying member of the townie majority. And rarely are there other fugitive faces for Olive to hide behind on nights when she wants to get on the go. There was a Mexican painter once. A Russian musician. There was the one Pakistani fellow whose name Olive could never recall. She did not think it was unpronounceable, she just could not pronounce it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are lots of words still beyond her reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Olive can think of no words to describe the pain felt where her pants nearly meet her feet. She winces and tucks her chin farther inside her coat. She tries to push her neck back to save from catching skin in the zipper. She sniffs back hard and swallows a slippery lob. Her grandmother would not approve of hoarding mucus in the body but her grandmother would not approve of much of what she does lately. Olive sighs and swells and swallows spit to slide the lob along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOllie my dollie, get a tissue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer grandmother’s voice is always a program running in the back of her mind. But Olive can’t sacrifice a tissue on mere mucus this morning. Her store of napkins is running low and the last time she tried to hock and spit the wind gust blew snot back onto her sleeve. The line of mucus running from her lips to her elbow turned her weak stomach over. A middle-aged woman in a bright blue Canada Goose coat muttered oh for the love of god as she hurried past the translucent boundary. This made Olive feel gross.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe swallows that gross feeling down again while she waits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe can distract herself for a time from the damp soak settling in her heels by watching the craven-faced respectable people meander to their grown-up jobs after a weekend of pretending to be twenty-five. They are not twenty-five. They are not even thirty-five and feel as such. Most internally promise to stay home with the kids next weekend as they turn their faces to or from the sunshine depending on the quantity of painkillers ingested in the car. This temporary commitment to sobriety is bookended by revolving party systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome relish vitamin D while others resent it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe division will not last long, though, as the sun already has started to duck back inside the nimbostratus. It will storm again today as surely as the nearly forty will go out again in four days’ time. The babysitter will be called. The cat will be let in. They will flee their houses for a little look around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet the stink of house off ya.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey will reliably cloak this smell of domestication in alcohol and nicotine and self-loathing until Monday. Mondays are for quitting everything. Again. Except when it storms on Monday. Then quitting everything is pushed to Tuesday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday is such a Tuesday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe weekend warriors refuse to sell out and so have fully bought in pound for pound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlive is just the same. She too had been sold the notion of party drugs as lazy fun and then fast gobbled them hand over fist. Swallow, snort, smoke; ingestion is an irrelevant matter of personal preference and ease. There is no wall to wall them out. Or in. Drug trends are trendingalong regardless of national media reports daily updating all on their progress east and upward. Olive has watched the same scenes play out on repeat in dark corners of the late night since arriving in Sin Jawns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd they’ve gone and stashed the kits everywhere to protect against the siren call. A first line of defence kept behind wine bars. Under the bathroom sink. In purses. And Olive knows she must address the long list of reasons why self-medicare is needed to comfort her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEventually. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"The lure of Coles’s often glorious use of language and the importance of reading books that do exactly what Small Game Hunting does — force the reader to face truths that have been hidden and swept away for far too long, to be made uncomfortable and prompted to think rather than be simply entertained — are reason enough to give this up-and-coming author’s new work serious consideration.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"What recommends this novel most is the way its author stays with her characters’ hurt, how she holds it without reverence but understands how those wounds can motivate like nothing else . . . Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club is a dark, taut, funny novel that feels for its characters’ pain while remaining caustic toward the enablers and the kinds of violence that polite society allows.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"A profound read, offering up perfectly crafted sentences in the thoughts of the motley cast of characters.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Canadian Living","OtherText_Review_3":"Although Small Game Hunting is often tragic and heartbreaking, its finale offers a glimmer of hope that we are invited to be brave and wait for. The hope that sees women, both tattered and changed by the work of male violence and power, not at a loss for agency or warmth. In the end, Coles’s powerful novel is a tale of resilience.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Rabble.ca","OtherText_Review_4":"Early in Small Game Hunting, a Nigerian immigrant asks the heroine about her true origins: ‘You don’t look all white,’ he says. 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Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel exposes class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.
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Manikanetish
A young teacher’s return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students through the redemptive power of art.
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A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean’s great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community.
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This work allows readers and writers the possibility of new and ancient modes of storytelling.” — Tracey Lindberg, author of \u003cem \u003eBirdie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“The story’s meditations on loss, family, and fateful actions prove absorbing from the opening page.” — \u003cem \u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Harold R. Johnson is a wonderful writer, and \u003cem \u003eClifford\u003c\/em\u003e is his best work yet. For fans of Jack Finney and Richard Matheson, this terrific book is a wonderfully human tale of memory both bitter and sweet, as well as a poignant exploration of time’s hold over all of us.” — Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award–winning author of \u003cem \u003eQuantum Night\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem \u003eClifford\u003c\/em\u003e is unlike anything I’ve read — it is at once a story of science and magic, love and loss, and a case for the infinite potential of humanity. 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The Björkan Sagas
Drawing upon his Cree and Scandinavian roots, Harold R. Johnson merges myth, fantasy, and history in this epic saga of exploration and adventure.
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A moving tribute to an older brother that traverses the thresholds of memoir, fiction, and fantasy and reimagines what could have been.
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The Outside Circle
A graphic novel about two brothers surrounded by poverty and gang violence trying to overcome centuries of historic trauma.
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Glorious Frazzled Beings
In this astounding collection of stories, human and more-than-human worlds come together in places we call home.
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This Accident of Being Lost
A knife-sharp collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
