A Minor Chorus (eBook)

A Novel

Billy-Ray Belcourt (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
176 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-02143-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller PrizeA debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief.In the stark expanse of Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel, informed by a series of poignant encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted man from his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the realities of queer life on the fringe. Woven throughout these conversations are memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of police violence, drugs, and survival. Jacks life parallels the narrators own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus introduces a dazzling new literary voice whose vision and fearlessness shine much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous survival.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Schlagworte: academia • academic • Alberta • autofiction • Canada • Colonialism • Coming of Age • Contemporary fiction • Cree • Debut • Family • Indigenous • Literary • metafiction • Native • Police brutality • Queer • Reservation • rez • Violence
• ISBN-10: 1-324-02143-8 / 1324021438
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-02143-8 / 9781324021438