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2012., Ekstasis Editions Call No: QWF Fic Lal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Seven Lakes Further North is the story of Michel, a quarter-blood Native who sets out on a long trip to the great forest for a strange meeting with an Indian whoœs taken refuge there following the Oka standoff. The story runs through a land of lakes and forests, from Oka to the Abitibi, to the source of the Ottawa River, as Michel rediscovers his mother, voices from his childhood, memories of fishing trips and his dead fatherœs torn landscapes. A postcolonial novel of consensus, Seven Lakes Further North reconciles clashing polarities, while painting the Canadian landscape in dreamlike detail. In Seven Lakes Further North, Lalonde plumbs the memories of a childhood he spent in Oka living next to an Indian reservationchildhood marked by conflict between two nations, two nations he loves with equal passion. In exploring the memories of his childhood, he weaves a compelling narrative about building bridges between clashing worlds.
