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Keep. by Jenny Haysom. ★ What I Know About You. by Éric Chacour; Pablo Strauss (trans.) When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance. by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel; with Sean Carleton.
Daughters of the Deer - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
by Danielle Daniel. Danielle Daniel (Gerry Kingsley) In her debut novel for adults, Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award–winning children’s author Danielle Daniel mines her family history to tell an affecting and difficult story of colonialism, love, loss, and resilience based on two women quite a few branches up in her genealogical tree ...
Subterrane - Quill and Quire
Oct 30, 2024 · In Subterrane, interdisciplinary artist Valérie Bah’s polyvocal novel about how Black queer communities create meaning for themselves, this representational dilemma is tackled from a host of perspectives. Zeynab Abdi is an established documentary filmmaker adored by arts grant bodies and audiences alike, but some members of her community ...
White World - Quill and Quire
Saad T. Farooqi’s debut novel White World starts right in the middle of the action – with his protagonist, Avaan, running with a gun in his hand, in a dystopian Pakistan engulfed in a civil war set 60 years in the future – and doesn’t let up.. In the first of the three sections of the novel, the chapters switch between the perspectives of Avaan, a man who has lost everyone closest to ...
Stolen Words - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
Dec 1, 2017 · A group of children stand, their heads reluctantly held to the sky with mouths open as their voices flow from their throats in smoky wisps, coalescing into a large blackbird. The bird flies into a cage, held by a white priest. Back in the present, when the grandfather opens the Cree language book, the previously caged blackbird is released ...
Fayne - Quill and Quire
Ann-Marie MacDonald’s first novel in eight years, Fayne, is a reinvention for the bestselling author, who turns her attention away from the Canadian locales of her previous works to the wild borderlands of the British Isles. In this doorstopper of a book – which runs to 736 pages – we follow a young person named Charlotte Bell who comes of age in Fayne, a secluded estate situated on the ...
Forty years on, In Search of April Raintree remains a …
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Métis author Beatrice Mosionier’s best-known work In Search of April Raintree. The novel candidly deals with Indigenous experiences of sexual assault, suicide, and alcoholism, and follows the lives of sisters April and Cheryl as they are separated from their birth family and placed in foster care ...
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
More than a decade after the release of her first bestselling comics collection Hark! A Vagrant, Cape Breton cartoonist Kate Beaton returns with her first long-form graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.Chronicling her time in Northern Alberta, Ducks is a remarkable glimpse into the fraught and under-explored daily lives of the people who work in one of …
What I Know About You - Quill and Quire
The first is when he opens a medical clinic in one of the poorest parts of Cairo and offers free care to the garbage pickers and others on the lowest rung of society. The second is when he meets a young man at the clinic, Ali, with whom he falls in love. Their relationship, and the fallout from it, form the drama and quietly heart-wrenching ...
Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth - Quill and Quire - Quill
In one sense, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth is about the psychological consequences of the “scoop up,” or the taking of native children for adoption in white society. But behind the generalized clash of cultures – revealed in an appealing blend of comedy and drama – there is a specific story of two sisters finding a way to each other through great turmoil.