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National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction\u003cbr \/\u003eA Best Book of the Decade, The Walrus\u003cbr \/\u003eAn Indigo Best Book of the Decade\u003cbr \/\u003eA Globe And Mail Top 100 Book\u003cbr \/\u003eA National Post 99 Best Book of the Year\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Talaga has written Canada’s J’Accuse, an open letter to the rest of us about the many ways we contribute — through act or inaction — to suicides and damaged existences in Canada’s Indigenous communities. Tanya Talaga’s account of teen lives and deaths in and near Thunder Bay is detailed, balanced and heart-rending. Talaga describes gaps in the system large enough for beloved children and adults to fall through, endemic indifference, casual racism and a persistent lack of resources. It is impossible to read this book and come away unchanged.” — RBC Taylor Prize Jury Citation“Tanya Talaga’s powerful book is a hard-hitting story of the realities of Canadian racism, complicity, and Indigenous suffering. It is also a testament to the resilience of the Anishinaabe families who endure the crushing impacts of historic and contemporary injustices. In spare prose and a direct voice, Talaga documents the tragedies of the lost lives of Indigenous youth while creating a compelling narrative that educates the reader on the sad history of Indigenous–White relations. This book is a crucial document of our times, and vital to the emergence of a true vision of justice in Canada.” — Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e, Tanya Talaga delves into the lives of seven Indigenous students who died while attending high school in Thunder Bay over the first eleven years of this century. With a narrative voice encompassing lyrical creation myth, razor-sharp reporting, and a searing critique of Canada’s ongoing colonial legacy, Talaga binds these tragedies — and the ambivalent response from police and government — into a compelling tapestry. This vivid, wrenching book shatters the air of abstraction that so often permeates news of the injustices Indigenous communities face every day. It is impossible to read \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e and not care about the lives lost, the families thrust into purgatory, while the rest of society looks away.” — Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e is achingly blunt in confronting recurring damage that must be repaired. The book puts a human face to the headline statistics, reveals the continuing harm of unequal educational opportunity, and delivers the evidence of systemic racism in Canada with an insistent voice. Tanya Talaga draws the reader into communities of hurt and flawed responses surrounding the deaths of seven Indigenous students, the ‘fallen feathers.’ Talaga yanks at the reader’s complacency with her story of separated families, untethered youths, and the seemingly unbridgeable distance between cultures. She offers painful lessons while courting hope.” — BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“You simply must read this book. Tanya Talaga has done the hard work for us. She sat with the families, heard their stories. Now, with the keen eye and meticulous research of an uncompromising journalist, she is sharing their truths. We have to start listening. Parents are sending their children to school in Thunder Bay to watch them die. Racism, police indifference, bureaucratic ineptitude, lateral violence — it doesn’t have to be this way. Let this book enrage you — and then demand that Canada act now.” — Duncan McCue, host of Cross Country Checkup on CBC Radio\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“This story is hard and harrowing, but Talaga tells it with the care of a storyteller and the factual attention of a journalist. She makes the difficult connections between this national tragedy and the greater colonial systems that have endangered our most vulnerable for over a century, and she does it all with a keen, compassionate eye for all involved, especially the families who are too often overlooked. These stories need to be heard. These young people deserve nothing less than to be honoured everywhere.” — Katherena Vermette, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e may prove to be the most important book published in Canada in 2017. Tanya Talaga offers well-researched, difficult truths that expose the systemic racism, poverty, and powerlessness that contribute to the ongoing issues facing Indigenous youth, their families, and their communities. It is a call to action that deeply honours the lives of the seven young people; our entire nation should feel their loss profoundly.” — Patti LaBoucane-Benson, author of The Outside Circle\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Once started, this book is difficult to put down. At just over 300 pages, \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e moves from one compelling story to the next, and seamlessly weaves in facts and history. The writing is crisp and thoughtful. \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e … fosters understanding, and is a book that can benefit everyone.” — \u003cem\u003eOttawa Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“[W]here \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e truly shines is in Talaga’s intimate retellings of what families experience when a loved one goes missing, from filing a missing-persons report with police, to the long and brutal investigation process, to the final visit in the coroner’s office. It’s a heartbreaking portrait of an indifferent and often callous system … \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for all Canadians. It shows us where we came from, where we’re at, and what we need to do to make the country a better place for us all.” — The Walrus\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Devastating, angry, and thought-provoking” — \u003cem\u003eOpen Letters Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e (blog review)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“What is happening in Thunder Bay is particularly destructive, but Talaga makes clear how Thunder Bay is symptomatic, not the problem itself. Recently shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Talaga’s is a book to be justly infuriated by.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“[A]n urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, far from their homes and families… . Talaga’s incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising… . The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.” — \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“A poignant, emotional glimpse into the lives of the seven fallen feathers — Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Kyle Morriseau, Paul Panacheese, Reggie Bushie, Robyn Harper, and Jordan Wabasse — through the eyes of their friends and families.” — \u003cem\u003eTBNewswatch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e … is a must read. One can hope in \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e people in our community might find a path forward to true understanding and reconciliation.” — NetNewsLedger\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“This is a book that everyone should read… . [it] will grip you, make you think and help you understand better what has led up to the horrific experiences of young people cut down too soon. It connects the local experience to the larger experience of Canada and is a cry for justice, human rights and respect.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Chronicle Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eTalaga’s work brings stories to the fore when mainstream media have covered them up for decades … \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e is a difficult read. It deals with death and racism; it tackles pain and suffering head on. Telling the students’ stories is also an act of hope and healing based on the certainty that things can be better, and that they must. This book is a solid piece of investigative journalism and should be read, and shared far and wide.” — \u003cem\u003eCitizens’ Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Tanya Talaga investigates the deaths of seven Indigenous teens in Thunder Bay — Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Robyn Harper, Paul Panacheese, Reggie Bushie, Kyle Morrisseau, and Jordan Wabasse — searching for answers and offering a deserved censure to the authorities who haven’t investigated, or considered the contributing factors, nearly enough.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\"This story is hard and harrowing, but Talaga tells it with the care of a storyteller and the factual attention of a journalist. She makes the difficult connections between this national tragedy and the greater colonial systems that have endangered our most vulnerable for over a century, and she does it all with a keen, compassionate eye for all involved, especially the families who are too often overlooked. These stories need to be heard. These young people deserve nothing less than to be honoured everywhere.\"","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s early April and the 2011 federal election is in full swing. All over Canada, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are duking it out with Jack Layton’s New Democrats and the struggling Liberals in a bid to win a majority government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’m in Thunder Bay, Ontario, to see Stan Beardy, the Nishawbe-Aski Nation’s grand chief, to interview him for a story on why it is indigenous people never seem to vote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe receptionist at the NAN’s office greets me and ushers me into a large, common meeting room to wait for Stan. Everything in the room is grey — the walls, the tubular plastic tables, the carpets. The only splash of colour is a large white flag with a bear on it that has been tacked to the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great White Bear stands in the centre of a red circle, in the middle of the flag. The white bear is the traditional symbol of the life of the North American Indian. The red circle background is symbolic of the Red Man. His feet are standing, planted firmly on the bottom line, representing the Earth while his head touches the top line, symbolic to his relationship to the Great Spirit in the sky. The bear is stretched out, arms and feet open wide, to show he has nothing to hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are circles joining the bear’s rib cage. They are the souls of the people, indigenous songs, and legends. The circles are the ties that bind all the clans together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese circles also offer protection. Without them, the ribcage would expose the great bear’s beating heart and leave it open to harm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan walks in and greets me warmly, his brown eyes twinkling as he takes a seat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan is pensive, quiet, and patient. He says nothing as he wearily leans back in his chair and waits for me to explain why exactly I flew 2,400 km north from Toronto to see him and talk about the federal election.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI launch into my spiel, trying not to sound like a salesperson or an interloper into his world, someone who kind of belongs here and kind of does not. This is the curse of my mixed blood. I am the daughter of a half-Anish mom and a Polish father.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI ramble off abysmal voting pattern statistics across Canada, while pointing out that in many ridings indigenous people could act as a swing vote, influencing that riding and hence the trajectory of the election.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan stares at me impassively. Non-plussed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo I start firing off some questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt doesn’t go well. Every time I try to engage him, asking him about why indigenous people won’t get in the game and vote, he begins talking about the disappearance of fifteen-year-old Jordan Wabasse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a frustrating exchange, like we were speaking two different languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Indigenous voters could influence fifty seats across the country if they got out and voted but they don’t. Why?” I ask.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Why aren’t you writing a story on Jordan Wabasse? He has been gone seventy-one days now,” replies Stan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Stephen Harper has been no friend to indigenous people yet if everyone voted, they could swing the course of this election,” I continue, hoping he’ll bite at the sound of Harper’s name. The man is no friend of the Indians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“They found a shoe down by the water. Police think it might have been his,” replies Stan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis went on for a good fifteen minutes. I was annoyed. I knew a missing Grade 9 indigenous student in Thunder Bay would not make news in urban Toronto at Canada’s largest daily newspaper. I could practically see that election bus rolling away without me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen I remembered my manners and where I was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was sitting with the elected grand chief of 23,000 people and he was clearly trying to tell me something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI tried a new tactic. I’d ask about Jordan and then I’d swing around and get him to talk about elections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Stan said: “Jordan is the seventh student to go missing or die while at school.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan says their names: “Reggie Bushie. Jethro Anderson. Paul Panacheese. Curran Strang. Robyn Harper. Kyle Morrisseau. And now, Jordan Wabasse.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe then tells me the seven were hundreds of miles away from their home communities and families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach was forced to leave their reserve simply because there was no high school for them to attend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Going to high school is the right of every Canadian child,” says Stan, adding that these children are no different.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"\"[W]here Seven Fallen Feathers truly shines is in Talaga’s intimate retellings of what families experience when a loved one goes missing, from filing a missing-persons report with police, to the long and brutal investigation process, to the final visit in the coroner’s office. It’s a heartbreaking portrait of an indifferent and often callous system . . . Seven Fallen Feathers is a must-read for all Canadians. 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Seven Fallen Feathers
The shocking true story of seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city over the span of seven years.
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The layered storytelling is rich with wry and undeniable humour and introduces readers to an incredible cast of characters, giving us the perspective of Elders, Indigenous youth, raccoons, geese, and trees, braiding together past, present, and future and intentionally centring Nishnaabe life and practices … This is the beauty and masterful work of this novel: it holds something for every Indigenous person. It’s a gift that feels specifically for us.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNoopiming\u003c\/em\u003e is a rare parcel of beauty and power, at once a creator and destroyer of forms. All of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s myriad literary gifts shine here — her scalpel-sharp humour, her eye for the smallest human details, the prodigious scope of her imaginative and poetic generosity. The result is a book at once fierce, uproarious, heartbreaking, and, throughout and above all else, rooted in love.” — Omar El Akkad, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eAmerican War\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNoopiming\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel that is as philosophically generative as it is stylistically original. It begins with someone who is frozen in a lake, waiting, and from whom we learn that: ‘being frozen in the lake is another kind of life.’ Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s expansive work explores the indivisibility of beings — old woman, old man, tree, caribou, stone, ice, spirit, geese, the brain, and more, all watching, grieving, thinking, acting, and listening amidst the ongoing and quotidian urgencies of capital. They are sleepless, ceaseless, trying to alter and to recode the world of consumerism, and their survival means that they must daily and collectively reconstruct existence in the city and its coterminous forests. \u003cem\u003eNoopiming\u003c\/em\u003e is far ahead of us in so many registers of story, language, and worldview; its cumulative effect is a new cosmography.” — Dionne Brand, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eTheory\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“This imaginative book is what would happen if we gave pen and paper to the deepest, most secretive parts of ourselves. Down to the fibres, down to each breath, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson dares to not only explore the humanity of a character, but the humanity of the parts that make us whole, in a world running on empty.” — Catherine Hernandez, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eScarborough\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s \u003cem\u003eNoopiming\u003c\/em\u003e once again confirms her position as a brilliant, daring experimentalist and a beautiful, radical portraitist of contemporary NDN life. The prose hums with a lovingness that moved me to tears and with a humour that felt plucked right out of my rez adolescence. The chorus of thinkers, dreamers, revolutionaries, poets, and misfits that Simpson conjures here feels like a miracle. My heart ached and swelled for all of them. What I adored most about this book is that it has so little to do with the white gaze. Simpson writes for us, for NDNs, those made to make other kinds of beauty, to build other kinds of beautiful lives, where no one is looking.\u003cem\u003e Noopiming \u003c\/em\u003eis a book from the future! Simpson is our much-needed historian of the future!” — Billy-Ray Belcourt, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“How is it that Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s fiction can feel both familiar and warm like old teachings and absolutely fresh and brand new? Is it even fiction? \u003cem\u003eNoopiming\u003c\/em\u003e seems to exist somewhere in the in-between, with all the best parts of poetry and story. As always, I am in awe of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, prolific in every way.” — Katherena Vermette, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“I’m pretty sure we don’t deserve Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. But miracles happen, and this is one. This book is poem, novel, prophecy, handbook, and side-eyed critique all at once. This book doesn’t only present characters you will love and never want to leave (but yes, it does), it doesn’t only transform the function of character and plot into a visibly collective dynamic energy field (and hallelujah), but it also cultivates \u003cem\u003echaracter\u003c\/em\u003e in the reader, that we might remember what we first knew. Which is that what seems separate was never separate. What feels impossible is already happening. And it depends on our most loving words. It requires our most loving actions towards each other. The ceremony has been found.” — Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of \u003cem\u003eDub: Finding Ceremony\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eNoopiming\u003c\/em\u003e] presses readers — Indigenous and settler alike — to consider the novel form as a wider venue for storytelling than it is traditionally conceived … Language is thrilling in all of Simpson’s work, and nowhere more so than in this newest offering … Simpson’s writing is at once political and loud, honest and whisper-quiet … This novel will be reread for its many truths and teachings and for its undeniable power. The complicated questions \u003cem\u003eNoopiming\u003c\/em\u003e poses are worth revisiting, and the novel’s wisdom will continue to grow as the reader does.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Taking traditional Anishinaabe teachings and weaving them through contemporary forms of understanding, Simpson brings the reader into not a new world, but a world already existing, one that breaks through the colonial bars that try to cage it.” —\u003cem\u003e Rabble.ca\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON AND \u003cem\u003eTHIS ACCIDENT OF BEING LOST\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Trillium Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGlobe And Mail\u003c\/em\u003e Top 100 Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e 99 Best Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a poet who strides through multiple realms. In \u003cem\u003eThis Accident of Being Lost\u003c\/em\u003e, she carries the reader along with her urgent, direct address . . . It is the uneasiness and emotional uncertainty of her characters that makes the book strangely addictive. I was stunned by Simpson’s generosity in sharing these experiences and inviting us to be challenged and to be lost. I welcomed having my assumptions about urban Indigenous people upended, and this is accomplished with the nourishing humour, wisdom, and poetic, loose-limbed lines that have been sewn through the stories.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“A testament to the power of connection, \u003cem\u003eThis Accident of Being Lost\u003c\/em\u003e is by turns poignant, funny, fiercely angry, and deeply sad . . . Remarkable.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“[Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s] storytelling philosophy is full of humour, truth, beauty, and love — and is always political. Decolonizing moments live within every song and story found in \u003cem\u003eThis Accident of Being Lost.\u003c\/em\u003e” — \u003cem\u003eArc Poetry Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“A powerful collection of short stories and songs . . . [Leanne Betasamosake Simpson] is quickly becoming known as one of the country’s greatest storytellers. Unique in its fragmented and casual, yet lyrical and elegant language . . . \u003cem\u003eThis Accident of Being Lost\u003c\/em\u003e forces readers to look at Canada differently.” — \u003cem\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Simpson deftly moves through and combines Nishnaabeg stories, the realities of indigeneity, and fantastical spaces . . . This [is an] exceptionally affecting work.” — \u003cem\u003eMuskrat Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“This is groundbreaking and powerful . . . Simpson is an unapologetic resistor of the colonial state, she creates a world where ordinary fears sit together with acts of defiance against racism and cultural fragmentation . . . One of Simpson’s more significant contributions to Indigenous literature.” — \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“A finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, this collection of stories, poems, and songs from a major Indigenous voice is a demonstration of the different ways an idea can manifest.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“A stunning collection of poetry, song, and short fiction. These short pieces are darkly humorous, elegantly constructed, and beautifully sorrowful . . . The stories are not bleak, and a wry sense of humour glimmers throughout, walking hand in hand with damaged humanity to create a gentleness that combats the sometimes grim subject matter . . . This is a truly creative and heartfelt work, thoroughly modern in tone and timbre.” — \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s genre-defying \u003cem\u003eThis Accident of Being Lost\u003c\/em\u003e is like no other book you will ever read in your life. In a luminous interweaving of Nishnaabeg storytelling, narrative, and poetry, she constructs linked fragments in which the natural world threads through a sharp urban realm and both the sacred and profane coexist. Her intimate fictions are populated with diverse characters — a mother and child at a city ballet, lovers in a sacred boreal forest, a woman attending a firearms training course. Visionary in scope, Simpson creates decolonialized realities where the routine of day-to-day life is alive with ceremony and illumination. These are shimmering stories etched with humour, anger, and above all, love and kindness.” — Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury Citation\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“The raw energy contained within these pieces gives this book flight. And what a flight! Within its energetic arcs the reader encounters anger and love and devotion and regret. Combining stories and poems, sharp realism and Nishnaabeg legend, \u003cem\u003eThis Accident of Being Lost\u003c\/em\u003e displays an extraordinary blend of humour and political truth-telling. Fiercely angry at one moment, lyrically loving in the next, Simpson introduces us to people whose honesty, humour, and passion unsettles and endears.” — Trillium Book Award Jury Citation\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Playful, pissed off, and ferociously funny, Leanne Simpson writes irresistible love stories in the jaws of genocide. A genius shape-shifter and defiant genre-detonator, there is quite simply no one like her.” — Naomi Klein, author of \u003cem\u003eThis Changes Everything\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe (Burning) Case for a New Green Deal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Blending song and story, humour and truth, \u003cem\u003eThis Accident of Being Lost\u003c\/em\u003e feels so intimate and so familiar. It is the story of our sisters, cousins, and friends. I love this book. Simpson is a master lyricist, captivating storyteller, and a true gift to us all.” — Katherena Vermette, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Leanne is a gifted writer who brings passion and commitment to her storytelling and who has demonstrated an uncommon ability to manage an impressive range of genres from traditional storytelling to critical analysis, from poetry to spoken word, from literary and social activism to songwriting. 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Noopiming
Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel.
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The Truth About Stories
In his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures, award-winning author Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people.
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A genius shape-shifter and defiant genre-detonator, there is quite simply no one like her.” — Naomi Klein, author of \u003cem\u003eThis Changes Everything\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Shock Doctrine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Blending song and story, humour and truth, \u003cem\u003eThis Accident of Being Lost\u003c\/em\u003e feels so intimate and so familiar. It is the story of our sisters, cousins, and friends. I love this book. Simpson is a master lyricist, captivating storyteller, and a true gift to us all.” — Katherena Vermette, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Leanne is a gifted writer who brings passion and commitment to her storytelling and who has demonstrated an uncommon ability to manage an impressive range of genres from traditional storytelling to critical analysis, from poetry to spoken word, from literary and social activism to songwriting. 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Unique in its fragmented and casual, yet lyrical and elegant language … This Accident of Being Lost forces readers to look at Canada differently.” — \u003cem\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Simpson deftly moves through and combines Nishnaabeg stories, the realities of indigeneity, and fantastical spaces … this [is an] exceptionally affecting work.” — \u003cem\u003eMuskrat Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“This is groundbreaking and powerful … Simpson is an unapologetic resister of the colonial state, she creates a world where ordinary fears sit together with acts of defiance against racism and cultural fragmentation … one of Simpson’s more significant contributions to Indigenous literature.” — The \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“A finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, this collection of stories, poems and songs from a major Indigenous voice, is a demonstration of the different ways an idea can manifest.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and \u003cem\u003eIslands of Decolonial Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eIslands of Decolonial Love\u003c\/em\u003e is the sort of book I have been looking for all my life — the kind of book that is going to make me a good writer, a good listener, and good citizen — it is going to wake up everything that is brilliant in everyone that reads it.” — Lee Maracle, author of \u003cem\u003eRavensong\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCelia’s Song\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“How many lives, Leanne Simpson, have you lived to create this most incredible collection? 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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.
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tawâw
Acclaimed chef Shane M. Chartrand’s debut cookbook explores the reawakening of Indigenous cuisine.
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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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These poems do the necessary work of negotiating with the heart-killing present from which we imagine and make Indigenous futures. Every line feels like a possible way out of despair.” — Elissa Washuta, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Body Is a Book of Rules\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“‘I believe I exist. \/ To live, one can be neither \/ more nor less hungry than that.’ How grateful I am that Billy-Ray Belcourt and these poems believe in themselves enough to exist. With prodigious clarity, this work moves swiftly amongst theory and prose, longing and lyric, questioning and coping, ‘not dying’ and ‘obsessively apologizing to the moon for all that she has to witness.’ It is not hyperbole to say these poems are brilliant. 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This is the beautiful achievement of NDN Coping Mechanisms: Belcourt conjures a sovereign literary space that refuses white sovereignty and is always already in relation to the ideas of the foremost decolonial poets and thinkers of Turtle Island.” — Mercedes Eng, author of \u003cem\u003ePrison Industrial Complex Explodes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR BILLY-RAY BELCOURT AND \u003cem\u003eTHIS WOUND IS A WORLD\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWinner, Griffin Poetry Prize\u003cbr \/\u003eWinner, Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize\u003cbr \/\u003eWinner, Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer, Indigenous Voices Award\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Raymond Souster Award\u003cbr \/\u003eA CBC Books Best Poetry Collection of the Year\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Blending the resources of love song and elegy, prayer and manifesto, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e shows us poetry at its most intimate and politically necessary. Mindful of tangled lineages and the lingering erasures of settler colonialism, Belcourt crafts poems in which ‘history lays itself bare’ — but only as bare as their speaker’s shapeshifting heart. Belcourt pursues original forms with which to chart the constellations of queerness and Indigeneity, rebellion and survival, desire and embodiedness these poems so fearlessly explore. Between its bold treatment of sexuality and wary anatomy of despair, \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e peels back the layers of feeling and experience to offer, finally, the glimmerings of hope — which only sometimes looks like escape: ‘follow me out the backdoor of the world.’ This electrifying book reminds us that a poem may live twin lives as incantation and inscription, singing from the untamed margins: ‘grieve is the name i give to myself \/ i carve it into the bed frame. \/ i am make-believe. \/ this is an archive. \/ it hurts to be a story.’” — 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize Judges’ Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e is a decolonial wild fire from which the acclaimed writer Billy-Ray Belcourt builds a new world — and it's the brilliant, radiant Indigenous world, I want to live in. His poetics create space out of nothing, unapologetically inhabit that space and then gift it to us with uninhibited love. 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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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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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One cannot simply tread the surface of its open invitation. There are many layers here below the poetic surface, and Vermette is singer-guide to the true depths of this river. It’s a work to be read, shared, and read again.” — Liz Howard, author of the Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection \u003cem\u003eInfinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eriver woman\u003c\/em\u003e, Vermette take us inside river, as a concept, a reality, and another world, and gently reveals the power, the resistance, and the sheer love of water, of life, and of all things Indigenous. 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.” — Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of \u003cem\u003eThis Accident of Being Lost\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eriver woman\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. 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This is slice-of-life storytelling at its finest.” — \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“This intimate and emotional look at their lives succeeds both as a novel and as a work of social justice.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Vermette's approach to her complex and devastating subject matter is boundless in its scope, intelligence, and beauty.” — \u003cem\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Katherena Vermette’s debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e, takes a tough, close-up look at an extended family in Winnipeg, tackling along the way a side of female life that’s often hard to acknowledge: the violence of girls and women sometimes display towards other girls and women, and the power struggles among them. In The Break, the characters may be Métis, but the motivations and emotions are surely universal. This is an accomplished writer who will go far.” — Margaret Atwood\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Katherena Vermette is a tremendously gifted writer, a dazzling talent.” — Madeleine Thien, author of \u003cem\u003eDo Not Say We Have Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Katherena Vermette rendered the women of the North End gorgeous in her poetry, \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e. In \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e, she renders them sweet, beautiful battlers who love under the most horrific of circumstances.” — Lee Maracle, author of \u003cem\u003eCelia’s Song\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Vermette is a staggering talent.” — Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In Vermette’s poetic prose, The Break offers a stark portrayal of the adversity that plagues First Nations women in this country — and the strength that helps them survive.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“It’s unsurprising that a novel by a poet would be beautifully written … \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is an astonishing act of empathy, and its conclusion is heartbreaking.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“With adeptness and sensitivity, Vermette puts a human face to issues that are too-often misunderstood, and in so doing, she has written a book that is both one of the most important of the year and one of the best. Though Katherena Vermette is not an emerging writer — she has written seven children’s books and won a Governor General’s award for her poetry collection \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e — for many, this novel will be their first encounter. And it will be a revelation. Vermette is a fully matured literary talent confronting some of our society’s fundamental problems through understated prose that exudes wisdom and emotion. Every page hides beauty amid suffering; love winning out over violence and hate. Stella, at one point in the novel, thinks about ‘[a] story that didn’t happen to her but that she keeps and remembers.’ \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is like that; it is a story that will stick with you a long time.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e doesn’t read like an impressive first novel; it reads like a masterstroke from someone who knows what they’re doing … Vermette is skilled at writing with a language that is conversational and comfortable and with a poetic ease that makes the hard things easier to swallow. The result is a book that is at times emotionally demanding, funny, suspenseful, and always engaging.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Winnipeg Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Stunning … [Vermette] chooses her words with a poet’s precision.” — \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Equal parts page-turner and stunning literary accomplishment.” — \u003cem\u003eOpen Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR KATHERENA VERMETTE AND \u003cem\u003eNORTH END LOVE SONGS\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWINNER, GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY\u003cbr \/\u003eSELECTION, “On the Same Page” (Manitoba’s provincial book club)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In spare, minimalist language, \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e attends to the demands of Indigenous and European poetics, braiding an elegant journey that takes us from Winnipeg’s North End out into the world.” — Governor General’s Literary Award jury citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e, Katherena Vermette uses spare language and brief, telling sketches to illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood. Vermette’s love songs are unconventional and imminent, an examination and a celebration of family and community in all weathers, the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions. This collection is a very moving tribute, to the girls and the women, the boys and the men, and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us.” — Joanne Arnott\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“The love that sits at the core of Katherena Vermette’s \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e is not simple or serene, but pugnacious and ferocious, something to be alternately fled from as well as embraced… . Vermette’s poetry explores a landscape that she at once rejects … but elsewhere speaks of with a great sense of love and longing … These North End Love Songs are loud and heightened, but also possess a surprising vulnerability. The collection’s subjects are often wounded and sometimes disappear, as both the inner and outer landscapes that Vermette explores have the tendency to turn hostile… . \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e embraces the difficulties, the stumbling and the groping, and all the chilly, ugly elements than can nonetheless combine into a sense of place and home.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“From a mixed-blood Métis woman with Mennonite roots, Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end (Nor-tend) of Winnipeg. It’s a story of death, birth, survival, beauty, and ugliness; through it all there are glimmers of hope, strength, and a will to survive whatever this city throws at you.” — Duncan Mercredi\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e … combines elegiac and fiercely ecstatic melodies to sing of a complicated love for a city, a river, and a neighbourhood. It is deep rooted in its location, yet will reach out to readers everywhere with its harsh and beautiful tunings of growing up female in Winnipeg’s North End.” — \u003cem\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"Vermette’s new collection is a strong follow-up to her Governor General’s Award-winning debut, 2012’s North End Love Songs.","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","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"}
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Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.
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She brings each story to life, skillfully weaving the stories of the youths’ lives, deaths, and families together with sharp analysis… The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.” — \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e*Starred Review*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Talaga has crafted an urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario… Talaga’s incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves.” — \u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e*Starred Review*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this urgent and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. 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Tanya Talaga expertly folds together interviews, storytelling, and statistics to bring us directly to the startling truth that Indigenous youth are fighting to find themselves through the multiple separations forced on them by settler states: separation of parents from children, separation of peoples from their land, and separation of tongues and hearts from their languages and traditions. All Our Relations is a call to action and a testament to the strength and tenacity of Indigenous people around the world.” — Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“This book is both moving and effective; it creates the space for readers to understand the complexity of these issues … An excellent read.” — \u003cem\u003eOttawa Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Talaga’s treatment and explanation of Indigenous people’s trauma is essential reading.” — \u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“An essential work of nonfiction … Through storytelling, on-the-ground reporting, literature surveys, and plenty of statistics, Talaga demonstrates the extent to which Indigenous children continue to live under the full weight of colonial history … All children, she writes, ‘need to know who their ancestors are, who their heroes and villains are.’ In All Our Relations, Talaga restores that basic right to Indigenous children who have been robbed of it. And the rest of us, as an epigraph from author Thomas King makes clear, no longer have the excuse of saying we haven’t heard this story. Talaga alone has told it twice now.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Talaga’s passion for the topic is palpable as she shares eye-opening stories and heartbreaking statistics … Thoughtful and thought-provoking.” — \u003cem\u003eParvati\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR TANYA TALAGA AND \u003cem\u003eSEVEN FALLEN FEATHERS\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWinner, RBC Taylor Prize\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Speaker’s Book Award\u003cbr \/\u003eLonglist, CBC Canada Reads\u003cbr \/\u003eA Globe and Mail Top 100 Book\u003cbr \/\u003eA National Post 99 Best Book of the Year\u003cbr \/\u003eA Chatelaine 20 Best Books of 2017\u003cbr \/\u003eCBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year\u003cbr \/\u003eNational Bestseller\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Talaga has written Canada’s J’Accuse, an open letter to the rest of us about the many ways we contribute — through act or inaction — to suicides and damaged existences in Canada’s Indigenous communities. Tanya Talaga’s account of teen lives and deaths in and near Thunder Bay is detailed, balanced and heart-rending. Talaga describes gaps in the system large enough for beloved children and adults to fall through, endemic indifference, casual racism, and a persistent lack of resources. It is impossible to read this book and come away unchanged.” — RBC Taylor Prize Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e, Tanya Talaga delves into the lives of seven Indigenous students who died while attending high school in Thunder Bay over the first eleven years of this century. With a narrative voice encompassing lyrical creation myth, razor-sharp reporting, and a searing critique of Canada’s ongoing colonial legacy, Talaga binds these tragedies — and the ambivalent response from police and government — into a compelling tapestry. This vivid, wrenching book shatters the air of abstraction that so often permeates news of the injustices Indigenous communities face every day. It is impossible to read Seven Fallen Feathers and not care about the lives lost, the families thrust into purgatory, while the rest of society looks away.” — Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury Citation \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e is achingly blunt in confronting recurring damage that must be repaired. The book puts a human face to the headline statistics, reveals the continuing harm of unequal educational opportunity, and delivers the evidence of systemic racism in Canada with an insistent voice. Tanya Talaga draws the reader into communities of hurt and flawed responses surrounding the deaths of seven Indigenous students, the ‘fallen feathers.’ Talaga yanks at the reader’s complacency with her story of separated families, untethered youths, and the seemingly unbridgeable distance between cultures. She offers painful lessons while courting hope.” — BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Tanya Talaga’s powerful book is a hard-hitting story of the realities of Canadian racism, complicity, and Indigenous suffering. It is also a testament to the resilience of the Anishinaabe families who endure the crushing impacts of historic and contemporary injustices. In spare prose and a direct voice, Talaga documents the tragedies of the lost lives of Indigenous youth while creating a compelling narrative that educates the reader on the sad history of Indigenous-White relations. This book is a crucial document of our times, and vital to the emergence of a true vision of justice in Canada.” — Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Once started, this book is difficult to put down. At just over 300 pages, Seven Fallen Feathers moves from one compelling story to the next, and seamlessly weaves in facts and history. The writing is crisp and thoughtful. Seven Fallen Feathers … fosters understanding, and is a book that can benefit everyone.” — \u003cem\u003eOttawa Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Where Seven Fallen Feathers truly shines is in Talaga’s intimate retellings of what families experience when a loved one goes missing, from filing a missing-persons report with police, to the long and brutal investigation process, to the final visit in the coroner’s office. It’s a heartbreaking portrait of an indifferent and often callous system … Seven Fallen Feathers is a must-read for all Canadians. It shows us where we came from, where we’re at, and what we need to do to make the country a better place for us all.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Devastating, angry, and thought-provoking” — \u003cem\u003eOpen Letters Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e (blog review)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“What is happening in Thunder Bay is particularly destructive, but Talaga makes clear how Thunder Bay is symptomatic, not the problem itself. Recently shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Talaga’s is a book to be justly infuriated by.” — Globe and Mail\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“An urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, far from their homes and families … Talaga’s incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising … The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.” — \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“A poignant, emotional glimpse into the lives of the seven fallen feathers — Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Kyle Morriseau, Paul Panacheese, Reggie Bushie, Robyn Harper, and Jordan Wabasse — through the eyes of their friends and families.” — \u003cem\u003eTBNewswatch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Seven Fallen Feathers … is a must read. One can hope in Seven Fallen Feathers people in our community might find a path forward to true understanding and reconciliation.” — \u003cem\u003eNetNewsLedger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“This is a book that everyone should read … [it] will grip you, make you think and help you understand better what has led up to the horrific experiences of young people cut down too soon. It connects the local experience to the larger experience of Canada and is a cry for justice, human rights, and respect.” — \u003cem\u003eChronicle Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Talaga’s work brings stories to the fore when mainstream media have covered them up for decades … Seven Fallen Feathers is a difficult read. It deals with death and racism; it tackles pain and suffering head on. Telling the students’ stories is also an act of hope and healing based on the certainty that things can be better, and that they must. This book is a solid piece of investigative journalism and should be read, and shared far and wide.” — \u003cem\u003eCitizens’ Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Tanya Talaga investigates the deaths of seven Indigenous teens in Thunder Bay — Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Robyn Harper, Paul Panacheese, Reggie Bushie, Kyle Morrisseau, and Jordan Wabasse — searching for answers and offering a deserved censure to the authorities who haven’t investigated, or considered the contributing factors, nearly enough.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“This story is hard and harrowing, but Talaga tells it with the care of a storyteller and the factual attention of a journalist. She makes the difficult connections between this national tragedy and the greater colonial systems that have endangered our most vulnerable for over a century, and she does it all with a keen, compassionate eye for all involved, especially the families who are too often overlooked. These stories need to be heard. These young people deserve nothing less than to be honoured everywhere.” — Katherena Vermette, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“You simply must read this book. Tanya Talaga has done the hard work for us. She sat with the families, heard their stories. Now, with the keen eye and meticulous research of an uncompromising journalist, she is sharing their truths. We have to start listening. Parents are sending their children to school in Thunder Bay to watch them die. Racism, police indifference, bureaucratic ineptitude, lateral violence — it doesn’t have to be this way. Let this book enrage you — and then demand that Canada act now.” — Duncan McCue, host of \u003cem\u003eCross Country Checkup\u003c\/em\u003e on CBC Radio\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e may prove to be the most important book published in Canada in 2017. Tanya Talaga offers well-researched, difficult truths that expose the systemic racism, poverty, and powerlessness that contribute to the ongoing issues facing Indigenous youth, their families, and their communities. It is a call to action that deeply honours the lives of the seven young people; our entire nation should feel their loss profoundly.” — Patti LaBoucane-Benson, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Outside Circle\u003c\/em\u003e“This book is both moving and effective; it creates the space for readers to understand the complexity of these issues … An excellent read.” — \u003cem\u003eOttawa Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"\"Talaga’s treatment and explanation of Indigenous people’s trauma is essential reading.\"","OtherText_Quote_from_review_1":"\"An essential work of nonfiction . . . Through storytelling, on-the-ground reporting, literature surveys, and plenty of statistics, Talaga demonstrates the extent to which Indigenous children continue to live under the full weight of colonial history . . . All children, she writes, ‘need to know who their ancestors are, who their heroes and villains are.’ In All Our Relations, Talaga restores that basic right to Indigenous children who have been robbed of it. And the rest of us, as an epigraph from author Thomas King makes clear, no longer have the excuse of saying we haven’t heard this story. Talaga alone has told it twice now.\"","OtherText_Quote_from_review_2":"\"All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward is an impeccably researched and unflinching documentation of how both colonial histories and ongoing genocidal practices have created the suicide crisis among Indigenous youth across the globe. Tanya Talaga expertly folds together interviews, storytelling, and statistics to bring us directly to the startling truth that Indigenous youth are fighting to find themselves through the multiple separations forced on them by settler states: separation of parents from children, separation of peoples from their land, and separation of tongues and hearts from their languages and traditions. All Our Relations is a call to action and a testament to the strength and tenacity of Indigenous people around the world.\"","OtherText_Quote_from_review_3":"\"This book is both moving and effective; it creates the space for readers to understand the complexity of these issues . . . 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All Our Relations
Tanya Talaga, the author of Seven Fallen Feathers, calls attention to an urgent global humanitarian crisis among Indigenous Peoples — youth suicide.
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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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Heartache and hardship are no match for the disarming whimsy, the layered storytelling shot through with love. The power of land, the pull of family, the turbulence of poverty are threads woven together with explorations of reality, tackling truth with a trickster slant.” — Eden Robinson, author of \u003cem\u003eSon of a Trickster\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “\u003cem\u003eClifford\u003c\/em\u003e is a story only Harold Johnson could tell. By turns soft and harsh, intellectual and emotional, Johnson weaves truth, fiction, science, and science fiction into a tapestry that is rich with meaning and maybes. A natural storyteller, Johnson seeks imagined pasts and futurity with equal parts longing and care. This work allows readers and writers the possibility of new and ancient modes of storytelling.” — Tracey Lindberg, author of \u003cem\u003eBirdie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\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\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Clifford 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. It is a book of profound wisdom — an unpacking of the deepest truths of science in an effort to transform the pain of grief and regret into healing and forgiveness.” — Patti Laboucane-Benson, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Outside Circle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eThe story’s meditations on loss, family, and fateful actions prove absorbing from the opening page.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“A brilliant mix of realism and fantasy.” — \u003cem\u003eLondon Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR HAROLD JOHNSON AND \u003cem\u003eFIREWATER\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eFinalist, 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“The book should be a bible in the fight for survival and recovery, for a better life for coming generations, and it should somehow be made available to band councils and urban community and friendship centres.” — \u003cem\u003eFirst Nations Drum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Johnson pointedly confronts the toll taken by alcohol … Written in the style of a kitchen-table conversation, Johnson’s personal anecdotes and perceptive analysis are a call to return to a traditional culture of sobriety… . [a] well-argued case.” — \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“This is an extraordinary memoir by a Cree writer who understands the damage alcohol does when used to kill the pain caused by white Canadians stealing and torturing Indigenous children throughout this nation’s history. 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For that, \u003cem\u003eCorvus\u003c\/em\u003e is an important intervention into climate-based, futuristic sci-fi.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\"Clifford is a story only Harold Johnson could tell. By turns soft and harsh, intellectual and emotional, Johnson weaves truth, fiction, science, and science fiction into a tapestry that is rich with meaning and maybes. A natural storyteller, Johnson seeks imagined pasts and futurity with equal parts longing and care. This work allows readers and writers the possibility of new and ancient modes of storytelling.\"","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\"Harold R. Johnson is a wonderful writer, and Clifford is his best work yet. 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A solid hit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe shield spun away, pivoted on the single nail driven into the top of the post, and the other end of the board spun around, exactly like he planned it, exactly like he told me it was going to work. Except I don’t think he expected the long end of the two-by-four to come around so quickly and catch him on the back of the head.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI pick up the hoop. 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Clifford
A moving tribute to an older brother that traverses the thresholds of memoir, fiction, and fantasy and reimagines what could have been.
