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  • Author: Reid, Brandon
    Date:
    Created
    2023
    Summary:

    Imbued with passion, creativity and insight, Brandon Reid's debut novel is a wonderfully creative coming-of-age story exploring indigeneity, masculinity and cultural tradition. Twelve-year-old Derik Mormin travels with his father and a family friend to Bella Bella for his grandfather's funeral. Along the way, he uncovers the traumatic history of his ancestors, considers his relationship to masculinity and explores the contrast between rural and urban lifestyles in hopes of reconciling the seemingly unreconcilable, the beauty of each the Indigenous and "Western" way of life--hence beautiful beautiful. He travails a storm, meets long-lost relatives, discovers his ancestral homeland; he suffers through catching fish, gains and loses companions, learns to heal trauma. In Beautiful Beautiful we delve into the mind of a gifted boy who struggles to find his role and persona through elusive circumstance, and-- All right, that's quite enough third-person pandering; you're not fooling anyone. Redbird here, Derik's babysitter, and narrator of this here story. Make sure to smash that like button. We're here to bring light to an otherwise grave subject, friends. It's only natural to laugh while crying. I bring story to life. One minute I'm a songbird singing from a bough, the next, I'm rapture. I connect you to the realm of spirit... Well, as best I can, given your mundane allocation. Follow us through primordial visions, dance with a cannibal (don't worry, they're friendly once tamed) and discover what it takes to be united. Together, we'll have fun. Together, we are one. So tuck in, and believe what you'll believe, for who knows what yesterday brings. Amen and all my relations, all my relations and amen.

    Contents:
    • Intro
    • Half Title Page
    • Title Page
    • Copyright
    • Dedication
    • Part One
    • 1. Egg Island
    • 2. The One That Got Away
    • 3. Storm and Dreams
    • 4. Beautiful Beautiful
    • 5. Shearwater
    • 6. Harder, Father
    • 7. Call Him Lucky
    • 8. All Three Hundred
    • 9. Showdown
    • Part Two
    • 10. Chief's Spot Pawn
    • 11. To Be a Rock, and Not to Roll
    • 12. Derik's Great Work
    • 13. The Sweat
    • 14. Glory Days
    • 15. Pleasure Craft
    • 16. The First Voyage
    • 17. Thar She Blows?
    • 18. Fire on the Beach
    • Part Three
    • 19. Grandpa's Ashes
    • 20. Vision of Bax
    • 21. The Cannibal Dance
    • 22. Evolution 23. Celebration of Life
    • 24. Aunt Lizzy
    • 25. Sparkling Sea
    • Acknowledgements
    • About the Author
    Original Publisher: Gibsons, British Columbia, Nightwood Editions
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780889714557