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Keeper'n me

Wagamese, Richard (author.).

Summary: When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city. Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds himself thrown in jail. While there, he gets a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family.The sudden communication from his past spurs him to return to the reserve following his release from jail. Deciding to stay awhile, his life is changed completely as he comes to discover his sense of place, and of self. While on the reserve, Garnet is initiated into the ways of the Ojibway -- both ancient and modern -- by Keeper, a friend of his grandfather, and last fount of history about his people's ways.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0385662831
  • ISBN: 9780385662833 (trade paperback) :
  • Physical Description: 322 pages ; 21 cm
    regular print
    print
  • Edition: Anchor Canada edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Anchor Canada, 2006.
  • Badges:
    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0
Subject: aIndigneous authors
First Nations reserves -- Fiction
Indigenous peoples -- Fiction
Foster home care -- Fiction
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction
Criminals -- Fiction
Ojibwe -- Reservations -- Fiction
Topic Heading: Aboriginal
Canadian fiction
First Nations
Festival of the Written Arts 2018 > Sechelt (B.C.)
Indigenous collection

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