The Morning Bell Brings the Broken Hearted
The Morning Bell Brings the Broken Hearted
Natasa Ilic
, Dawn Macdonald
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Jude Castillo
, Marilyn Stanley
, Barry Kazimer
, Sarah Schwartz
, Linda Leitch
, Trish Bowering
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Mary Therrien
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Noelle Walsh
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Margaret Palmer
, Hilary Squires
, Kate Rutter
, Laurie Burns
, Alice Meems
, Deb Philippon
, Reilly Robson
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Sandra Furlotte
, Andrea Gillespie
, Val Ross
, Kailey Gallant
, Annika Fotheringham
, Melissa Poremba
, Agnes Marshall
, Russell Reitsema
, Andrea Pole
, Lisa Mallia
, Lesley Cameron
, Sherry McIntosh
, Jayne Barnard
, finn mulryan
, Elmira Olson
, Michelle Brown-Matthews
, Joshua Lewis
, Janet Meisner
, Dani Kat
, Sara Conway
, Janice Cournoyer
, Rachel Lutz
, Margaret McKay
, Elizabeth Ivanovich
, Cindy Bodini
, Sheila Cornelisse
, Sandra Dufoe
, Lauren Carter
, Filomena Falocco
, Karen Kendrick
, Karen Nordrum
, Rachel Edmonds
, Caroline Woodward
, Kathryn Galan
, Ron Thompson
, Luna Anderson Gillis
, C. Ray
, Siobhan Monaghan
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Huguette Lemieux
, Katherine Koller
, Jessica Gilbert
, Kate Trgovac
, Randi Ann Doll
, Heather Belliveau
, Lynn Hallson
, Susan Baues
, Lindsay Hobbs
, Laura Peters
, Shayla Bradley
, Pam Keetch
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Patricia McKeown
, Heather Sibley
, Christopher Evans
, Denise Duvall
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Ken Gilmour
, Kim Cappellina
, S. A. M. McCue
, Frances Peck
, Alex Henderson
, Benita Hartwell
, Ellen Clarke
, Debbie Youngman
, Debra Fisher
, P. Thompson
, Caroline Lavoie
, diana kirkwood
, Catherine Westerberg
, laura martina
, Toni Mills
, Patricia Johnson
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Beth Dekoker
, Elisha Lazarski
, Thelma Ball
, Janet Hosokawa
, Faye Lilley
, Madison Hendricks
, VJ Hatton
, Shawna Moodie
, Olivia Pellegrino
editor@49thShelf.com
Exploring the intricacies of power, culture and emotion when a non-Indigenous person moves to an Indigenous community as an educator, Jennifer Manuel casts a spell as captivating and perceptive as in her bestselling novel The Heaviness of Things That Float.
When new teacher Molleigh Royston moves to Tawakin—a remote Nuu-chah-nulth community in the Pacific Northwest—she arrives with good intentions. However, as she struggles to understand and help her students, doubts begin to accumulate—including doubts about her own motivations. Things escalate when three students start behaving strangely and Molleigh makes a serious cultural transgression, triggering a series of disturbing events in the village. Giant boulders are placed in front of Molleigh’s house, furniture moves mysteriously and flowers erupt in flame.
The Morning Bell Brings the Broken Hearted is a captivating story about the complexity of hope and the limits of good intent, offering a grave look at how the education system fails remote Indigenous communities, leaving Indigenous students, with all their brilliance and resilience, in the hands of transient educators.
