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A minor chorus : a novel
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Published [2022] by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY
ISBN 9781324021421
Bib Id 2543676
Edition First edition.
Description 162 pages ; 21 cm
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9781324021421 (paperback) $15.95
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FIC Belcourt
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A minor chorus : a novel
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First edition.
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[2022] by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY :
Description
162 pages ; 21 cm
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"A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted adult from his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the realities of queer life on the fringe. Amid these conversations, the narrator is haunted by memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of police violence, drugs, and survival. Jack's life parallels the narrator's own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus introduces the dazzling literary voice of a Lambda Literary Award winner and Canadian #1 national best-selling poet to the United States, shining much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous survival"--
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