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PERMANENT ASTONISHMENT
Son of a Caribou Hunter: A Memoir
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 11 th 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 themagical world of his northern childhood, paying tribute to a way of life that few have experienced and fewer stillhave chronicled.
Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Highway relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a night sky alive with stars; sucking the juices from roastedmuskrat tails ; and singing country music songs with his impossibly beautiful older sister and her teenaged friends.
Surrounded by the love of his family and the vast, mesmerizing landscape they called home, his was in many ways an idyllic childhood. But five of Highway 's siblings died in childhood, and Balazee and Joe, who loved their surviving children profoundly, wanted their two youngest sons to enjoy opportunities as big as the world. And so when Highway was six , he and his brother were flown south by float plan e to attend a residential school and begin the rest of their education.
Permanent Astonishment is Highway 's extravagant embrace of his beloved brother's final words: Don't mourn me, be joyful. Infused with humor and heart in equal measure it offers insights, both hilarious and profound, into the uniquely Cree experience of culture, conquest and survival.
TOMSON HIGHWAY is the celebrated author of the novel Kiss of the Fur Queen, which has been optioned for film and television, and several plays including The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won Dora Mavor Moore Awards and Floyd S. Chalmers Awards. He has criss-crossed North America, Europe and the world with his readings, lectures, piano performances, and teaching engagements. He divides his time between Canada and Italy.
Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Highway relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a night sky alive with stars; sucking the juices from roastedmuskrat tails ; and singing country music songs with his impossibly beautiful older sister and her teenaged friends.
Surrounded by the love of his family and the vast, mesmerizing landscape they called home, his was in many ways an idyllic childhood. But five of Highway 's siblings died in childhood, and Balazee and Joe, who loved their surviving children profoundly, wanted their two youngest sons to enjoy opportunities as big as the world. And so when Highway was six , he and his brother were flown south by float plan e to attend a residential school and begin the rest of their education.
Permanent Astonishment is Highway 's extravagant embrace of his beloved brother's final words: Don't mourn me, be joyful. Infused with humor and heart in equal measure it offers insights, both hilarious and profound, into the uniquely Cree experience of culture, conquest and survival.
TOMSON HIGHWAY is the celebrated author of the novel Kiss of the Fur Queen, which has been optioned for film and television, and several plays including The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won Dora Mavor Moore Awards and Floyd S. Chalmers Awards. He has criss-crossed North America, Europe and the world with his readings, lectures, piano performances, and teaching engagements. He divides his time between Canada and Italy.
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Published 2021-09-01 by Doubleday |