The Descendants _literary JUVENILE FICTION / Indigenous Peoples

JUVENILE FICTION / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island

more honest

you paint the landscapes as Jess Housty does in this evocative

There is a Dylan Thomas-like cast to many of these poignant

"Told in the style of the oral tradition and beautifully illustrated in black and white

The Descendants _literary JUVENILE FICTION / Indigenous PeoplesDescription Chursinoffs remarkable debut is a distinctively structured, sublimely written and moving tale of love, loss, intergenerational trauma and ultimately redemption, set in one of Canadas most enigmatic and misunderstood ethno religious communities. Seven years after a brutal encounter with the Hells Angels, two ex lovers, Jonah Seeger and Ruby Samarodin, return to their Doukhobor religious community in the mountains of British Columbia to heal