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Moccasin Square Gardens by Richard van Camp

August 7, 2020 by Wanderlustful 1 Comment

Moccasin Square Gardens is a collection of short stories set in indigenous communities in Canada’s Northwest Territories- the title comes from the local nickname for the dancehall in Fort Smith. There are nine short stories in this slim (155 pages) volume, and they cover a broad genre range- from science fiction and horror stories to romance and family drama. Because of this range, your mileage out of each story might vary- my favourite were the romance and family dramas but I’m not sad about a […]

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Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

June 29, 2019 by Claire Badger 2 Comments

You know how there’s that trope in the end of the world book where the city folk go up north, usually at the end of the book, to find a new place to live? They’re expecting it to be quiet, or full of people who just live off the land, and yet curiously no one ever seems to meet a First Nations person? I’ve long thought about that and what happens when the city folk start to migrate north. This book actually approaches the question […]

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As Long as Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

April 21, 2019 by Chris 3 Comments

Disclaimer: I won a copy via a Librarything giveaway. I suppose I could just say that I was reading this on the way back from work and when I looked up, somehow, the trolley had gotten to one stop from mine without me knowing. It was that absorbing. Gilio-Whitaker makes what might have been a somewhat dull topic and engages the reader. But I suppose you want more than that. When I mentioned I was reading this book to my friend who teaches in the […]

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