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.