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2020., Adult, Hamish Hamilton Call No: IND Bio B325h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir explores memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation, and expands to encompass the broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame, and ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward. Belcourt lives in Calgary, AB.
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2022., Hamish Hamilton Call No: IND Fic Bel Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted adult from his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the realities of queer life on the fringe. Amid these conversations, the narrator is haunted by memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of police violence, drugs, and survival. Jack's life parallels the narrator's own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus introduces the dazzling literary voice of a Lambda Literary Award winner and Canadian #1 national best-selling poet to the United States, shining much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous survival.
