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From the accomplished memoirist and former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario comes a first novel of incredible heart and spirit for every Canadian.
The novel follows one girl, Martha, from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is "stolen" from her family at the age of six and flown far away to residential school. She doesn't speak English but is punished for speaking her native language; most terrifying and bewildering, she is also "fed"...
The novel follows one girl, Martha, from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is "stolen" from her family at the age of six and flown far away to residential school. She doesn't speak English but is punished for speaking her native language; most terrifying and bewildering, she is also "fed"...
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As an angry thirteen-year-old in 1930, Oscar Wolf, a Native from the Chippewas of Rama Indian Reserve, sets a fire that inadvertently kills his grandfather and a young maid. Haunted by guilt and fear of retribution, he sets out on a lifelong quest for redemption. Through a series of adventures and occupations, he discovers that peace of mind in the middle of the twentieth-century is a difficult thing to find.
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