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Permanent astonishment : a memoir / written by Tomson Highway.

by Highway, Tomson, 1951-

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Doubleday Canada, 2021.

Highway, Tomson, 1951-

Highway, Tomson, 1951- -- Childhood and youth.

Cree First Nation -- Biography.

First Nations authors -- Biography.

First Nations -- Social conditions.

Residential schools -- Biography.

9780385696203 (hc.)

344 p. ; 23 cm.

"Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the 11th of 12 children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family who traversed the tundra by dogsled and lived off the land. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson Highway relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a night sky alive with stars; sucking the juices from roasted muskrat tails; and singing country music songs with his impossibly beautiful older sister and her teenaged friends. Surrounded by the love of his family and the vast, mesmerizing landscape they called home, his was in many ways an idyllic far north childhood. But five of Tomson's siblings died in childhood, and Balazee and Joe Highway, who loved their surviving children profoundly, wanted their two youngest sons, Tomson and Rene, to enjoy opportunities as big as the world. And so when Tomson was six, he was flown south by float plane to attend a residential school. A year later Rene joined him to begin the rest of their education. In 1990 Rene Highway, a world-renowned dancer, died of an AIDS-related illness. 'Permanent astonishment : growing up in the land of snow and sky' is Tomson's extravagant embrace of his younger brother's final words: 'Don't mourn me, be joyful.' His memoir offers insight, both hilarious and profound, into the Cree experience of culture, conquest and survival."--Jacket.

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