Permanent Astonishment: A Memoir (Signed) - Highway, Tomson

SIGNED BY TOMSON HIGHWAY on tipped-in page; New book: His memoir offers insights, both hilarious and profound, into the Cree experience of culture, conquest and survival. Born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the 11th of 12 children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Five of Tomson's siblings died in childhood, and Balazee and Joe Highway, who loved their surviving children profoundly, wanted their two youngest sons, Tomson and Rene, to enjoy opportunities as big as the world. An so when Tomson was six, he was flown south by float plane to attend a residential school. A year later Rene joined him to begin the rest of their education.
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Hardcover
Doubleday Canada
1st Edition
2021
Canada