All the Quiet Places: A Novel

All the Quiet Places: A Novel"What a welcome debut. Young Eddie Tomas passage through the truly ugly parts of this world is met, like an antidote, or perhaps a compensation, by his remarkable awareness of its beauty. This is a writer who understands youth, and how to tell a story." Gil Adamson, winner of the Writers Trust Fiction Prize for Ridgerunner Brian Isaacs powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming of age story of Eddie Toma, an Indigenous (Syilx) boy, told

An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America

Apache conceptions of wisdom

as well as songs of the Holy Dance and the pictographic notebooks of James Black (Jim Sapa)

She lives in her own world

" —Kimberly Blaeser

game and fish

and then the feeling of hope he gained from connecting with the spiritual ways of his people

In this bilingual book

Adam Jortner

People did not like hunting with him

The body and history become lands that are measured and plotted with precise instruments

the Aboriginal custom of drawing images on the ground to convey knowledge