Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the 11th of 12 children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family who traversed the tundra by dogsled and lived off the land. In Permanent Astonishment, one of the greatest writers of our time animates the magical world of his northern childhood, paying tribute to a way of life that few have experienced and… source
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- Set atMockbeggar Plantation, Bonavista↗
LRC explicitly maps Crummey's Mockbeggar to the historic Mockbeggar Plantation in Bonavista.
André Forget, 'Sibling Rivalry,' Literary Review of Canada (Nov 2023) — source
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