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A Grandmother Begins the Story

by Michelle Porter
Michelle Porter
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National Bestseller
Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize
Finalist for the 2024 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing in this brilliantly original debut novel.
Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means.
Allie is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother.
Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her join her ancestors in the Afterlife.
Geneviève is determined to conquer her demons before the fire inside burns her up, with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without.
And Mamé, in the Afterlife, knows that all their stories began with her; she must find a way to loose herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find their own paths forward.
This extraordinary novel, told by a chorus of vividly realized, funny, wise, confused, struggling characters—including descendants of the bison that once freely roamed the land—heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction.
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Publisher: Penguin Canada Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9780735245419
  • File size: 254424 KB
  • Release date: May 30, 2023
  • Duration: 08:50:02

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780735245419
  • File size: 254460 KB
  • Release date: May 30, 2023
  • Duration: 08:52:59
  • Number of parts: 7
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Fiction Literature

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English

National Bestseller
Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize
Finalist for the 2024 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing in this brilliantly original debut novel.
Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means.
Allie is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother.
Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her join her ancestors in the Afterlife.
Geneviève is determined to conquer her demons before the fire inside burns her up, with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without.
And Mamé, in the Afterlife, knows that all their stories began with her; she must find a way to loose herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find their own paths forward.
This extraordinary novel, told by a chorus of vividly realized, funny, wise, confused, struggling characters—including descendants of the bison that once freely roamed the land—heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction.
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