E-book
As long as the rivers flow
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307398765 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307398765 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (xiii, 250 p.) : 1 map. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A novel"-- Cover. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Pt. One Early Years, 1956 -- 1991 -- 1. First Memories -- 2 Indian Residential School -- 3 Father Lionel Antoine -- 4 Returning Home -- 5 Change Comes to the Reserve -- pt. two Big City, 1991-2003 -- 6 Leaving for Toronto -- 7 Spider -- 8 New Beginnings -- 9 Different Worlds -- 10 Reconnecting -- pt. three Healing Circle, 2003 -- 11 Back to the Reserve -- 12. Spider and the River -- 13 In Search of Oblivion -- 14 Church -- 15 Healing Circle -- 16 Embracing Life. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
Taken from her family in the Cat Lake First Nation at the age of six to a residential school, Martha finds herself punished for speaking her native language and abused by a priest, and when she returns home ten years later, she tries to find peace despite the anger she feels towards her mother. - Random House, Inc.
From the accomplished memoirist and former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario comes a first novel of incredible heart and spirit for every Canadian.
The novel follows one girl, Martha, from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is "stolen" from her family at the age of six and flown far away to residential school. She doesn't speak English but is punished for speaking her native language; most terrifying and bewildering, she is also "fed" to the school's attendant priest with an attraction to little girls.
Ten long years later, Martha finds her way home again, barely able to speak her native tongue. The memories of abuse at the residential school are so strong that she tries to drown her feelings in drink, and when she gives birth to her beloved son, Spider, he is taken away by Children's Aid to Toronto. In time, she has a baby girl, Raven, whom she decides to leave in the care of her mother while she braves the bewildering strangeness of the big city to find her son and bring him home.
