A Season in Chezgh'un
A Season in Chezgh'un
Ryan Woods
, Tanya Blake
, Charly Wreggitt
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Elaine Grandon
, Benita Hartwell
, Val Ross
, Brad MULLER
, Jude Castillo
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Janet Miller
, Marilyn Stanley
, Rodney Cross
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Beth Dekoker
, Dot Mann
, Martine Fabris
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Sharon Forzley
, Bronya Mazereeuw
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Chris Carvalho
, Rosa Cross
, Brittney Warren
, toni velthuis
, Joshua Lewis
, Sarah Van Dyk
, Sandra Furlotte
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Sarah Schwartz
, Alanna Virtue
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Noelle Walsh
, Laura Patterson
, Natasha Andres
, Kate Rutter
, Jane McRobb
, Tania Gigliotti
, Nicole Maxwell
, Megan Turner McMillan
, Isisus Western
, Agnes Marshall
, Marjorie Roy
, Danielle Kat
, Andrea Pole
, Barry Kazimer
, Louise Walsh
, Cherryl Koylass
, Sandra Lackie
, Maureen Brownlee
, Presley Robertson
, Lynn Andrews
, enid wray
, Mike Broderick
, Dorothy Wong
, Debra Fisher
, Jessica Casas
, Joseph Chirayil
, Anita Jones
, Kim Carswell
, Tori Levang
, Jane Graham
, Sara Conway
, LISA NELSON
, Gabrielle Rancourt
, Diana Richardson
, Ida Aronson
, Patricia Johnson
, Roland Schigas
, Susi Lovell
, Michelle Wong
, Margaret McKay
, Michelle Arsenault
, Wayne Harrigan
, Diane McPherson
, BJ Underwood
, Maria Mclean
, Robert Hykawy
, Janice Cournoyer
, Ian Skelton
, Emily Johansen
, diana kirkwood
, Alex Henderson
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Lynn Bechtel
, Chris Lantz
, Rose Hately
, Penelope Penner
, Susan Toy
, Carol Parchewsky
, Theresa Mackey
, Karyn Newton
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Kim Cappellina
, Lisa Mallia
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Tanis Anne
, Huguette Settle
, Lindsey Andronak
, K.I. Press
, Mary Lester
, Tami Osato
, Sandra Dufoe
, Jen Bailey
, Filomena Falocco
, Alice Meems
, Ellen Clarke
, Ken Gilmour
, Hailey Slaviero
, Randi Ann Doll
, Stef Novakowski
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Stacey Paton
, Katie Kah
, Rita Osullivan
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Meghan Barton
, Andre Labonte
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Judith Pearson
, Hoda Montazeri
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A subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a world that feels alien.
James, a talented and conflicted Cree man from a tiny settlement in Northern Alberta, has settled into a comfortable middle-class life in Kitsilano, a trendy neighbourhood of Vancouver. He is living the life he had once dreamed of—travel, a charming circle of sophisticated friends, a promising career and a loving relationship with a caring man—but he chafes at being assimilated into mainstream society, removed from his people and culture.
The untimely death of James’s mother, his only link to his extended family and community, propels him into a quest to reconnect with his roots. He secures a job as a principal in a remote northern Dakelh community but quickly learns that life there isn’t the fix he’d hoped it would be: His encounters with poverty, cultural disruption and abuse conjure ghosts from his past that drive him toward self-destruction. During the single year he spends in northern BC, James takes solace in the richness of the Dakelh culture—the indomitable spirit of the people, and the splendour of nature—all the while fighting to keep his dark side from destroying his life.
