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Porter, Michelle (Poet).
Subjects
Métis -- Fiction.
Métis women -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.
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Porter, Michelle (Poet).
Métis -- Fiction.
Métis women -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.
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A grandmother begins the story / Michelle Porter.
by
Porter, Michelle (Poet).
Viking, 2023.
Call #:
FICTION
POR
Subjects
Métis --
Fiction
.
Métis women --
Fiction
.
Siblings --
Fiction
.
Mothers and daughters --
Fiction
.
Thomas Raddall Atlantic
Fiction
Award.
ISBN:
9780735245372 (hc.)
Description:
322 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Five generations of Métis 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. Genevieve 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 Mame, 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 charactersincluding descendants of the bison that once freely roamed the landheralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary
fiction
."--Publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic
Fiction
Award, 2024.
Genre:
Canadian
fiction
.
First novel
Holds:
10
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