What Fiction are you reading this week, January 28, 2024?

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5. Library says it's fiction but it's really a memoir.

This book has stuck with me all week.

One of those mysteries, why it’s so powerful in such a quiet way.

(Cree Nation, the nomadic life. Catholic with a dozen kids. Fish. Sled dogs. Berry picking. Tree sap. Boarding school.)

Tomson Highway's memoir, Permanent Astonishment, is written as 'a symphony to life'

Permanent Astonishment won the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

When Tomson Highway says he was born in a snowbank, he means it literally. He arrived in December 1951, ahead of schedule, forcing his parents to stop their dogsled, pitch a tent in a snowbank in northern Manitoba and send their 12-year-old daughter out to fetch a midwife in the night.

Canadians know Highway as a world-renowned composer, pianist, playwright and author of the novel Kiss of the Fur Queen. He chronicles the first 15 years of his life in the memoir Permanent Astonishment.

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https://www.cbc.ca/books/tomson-highway-s-memoir-permanent-astonishment-is-written-as-a-symphony-to-life-1.6199176