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A grandmother begins the story

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  • Temps de fonctionnement: 08:50 hrs
    Voix de: Jenny Pudavick
    Publisher:
    Viking, 2023
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Temps de fonctionnement: 08:50 hrs
    Voix de: Jenny Pudavick
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Contributor: Pudavick, Jenny
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2023
    Summary:

    National Bestseller Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize Five generations of Meacute;tis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing in this brilliantly original debut novel. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means. Allie is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother. Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her join her ancestors in the Afterlife. Geneviegrave;ve is determined to conquer her demons before the fire inside burns her up, with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without. And Mameacute;, in the Afterlife, knows that all their stories began with her; she must find a way to loose herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find their own paths forward. This extraordinary novel, told by a chorus of vividly realized, funny, wise, confused, struggling characters-including descendants of the bison that once freely roamed the land-heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction.

    Original Publisher: New York, Viking
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780735245419
    Collection(s)/Series: First Nation Communities Read 2024