Permanent astonishment /

"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...

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Main Author: Highway, Tomson, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto : Doubleday Canada, [2021]
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