Kuessipan

Type

Book

Authors

Naomi Fontaine ( Fontaine, Naomi )

ISBN 10

1551525178

ISBN 13

9781551525174

Tags

Cultural Heritage, Native American, Literary, Native American Studies, Cultural

Description

"[Naomi Fontaine] writes in the same tradition as Native writers such as Thomas King and Louise Erdrich."?Le DevoirKuessipan ("to you" in the Innu language) is an extraordinary, meditative novel about life among the Native Innu people in the wilds of the Canadian North. With grace and perfect pitch, Naomi Fontaine conjures up a world that reads like no other, and a community?of nomadic hunters and fishers, of mothers and children?that endures a harsh, sometimes cruel reality with quiet dignity.Naomi Fontaine is a member of the Innu First Nation. Kuessipan, her first novel, is based on her own experience. - from Amzon

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