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When the author learns of the death of her brother overseas, she embarks on a journey to bring him home. Through memories and dreams of all they shared together and through her Dene traditions, she finds comfort and strength.
The lyrical art and story leave readers with a universal message of hope and love.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Imprint: HighWater Press
Publication Date:
25 March 2020
ISBN: 9781553798569
Format: eBook
BISACs:
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Religion / Indigenous / Spirituality, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Social Topics / Death, Grief, Bereavement, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional, Memoirs, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and grief, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Biographical fiction / autobiographical stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Siblings
Boivin, a member of Canada’s Deninu Kue First Nation, offers a fresh understanding of death and grief, which she portrays not as a breach in the natural order of things, but as an integral part of them: “You have left us, but you are also here now.”