Summary
From the accomplished memoirist and former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario comes a first novel that the Winnipeg Free Press called “a vigorous affirmation of the resilience of the human spirit.” 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307398758 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307398757 |
| Author: | James Bartleman |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2011 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 20mm |
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FINALIST 2013 Burt Award for First Nations, M
FINALIST 2013 – Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature
“As Long as the Rivers Flow casts an unflinching eye on the self-destruction that often befalls residential school survivors and their children… . Impressive.”
— Quill & Quire
“An extremely poignant novel that exposes the short-term and long-term damage of the residential school system. James Bartleman has skillfully illustrated an unpleasant but inescapable episode in Canadian and Native history and deserves recognition for shedding necessary light into the darkness.”
— Drew Hayden Taylor, author of Motorcycles and Sweetgrass
“James Bartleman combines the expertise of well-informed non-fiction with the compelling elements of fiction to tell a devastating, inspiring story. Only someone extremely well-informed and compassionate could have written it. My first teaching assignments thirty years ago were in Oji-Cree communities around James Bay. If only I’d had this novel to read then. It let me walk a mile in Martha’s moccasins, and her tracks remain on my heart. If you’re only going to read one book to glimpse what it’s been like to be Aboriginal in this country, this novel should be the one.”
— Anne Laurel Carter, author of The Shepherd’s Granddaughter and Last Chance Bay
About The Author
James Bartleman
JAMES BARTLEMAN rose from humble circumstances in Port Carling, Ontario, to become Foreign Policy Advisor to the right PM Chretienin 1994. After a distinguished career of more than thirty-five years in the Canadian foreign service, in 2002 he became the first Native Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario. He is the author of the prize-winning memoir Out of Muskoka.
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