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A young Native American girl remembers her volatile years as a child as she looks for her lost sibling in the Canadian wilds in an remarkable, critically acclaimed debut novel. As she races along Canada's Douglas Route in her speedboat - heading toward where her younger sibling Jimmy, presumed drowned, was last seen - 20-year-old Lisamarie Hill recalls her youthful days. A volatile and precocious Native gal growing up in Kitamaat, the Haisla Indian reservation located 500 kilometers north of Vancouver, Lisa came of age ranking with her legs strongly planted in two different worlds: the religious realm of the Haisla and the sobering "real" world using its dangerous temptations of violence, drugs, and despair. From her precious grandmother, Ma-ma-oo, she discovered of tradition and magic; from her adored, Elvis-loving uncle Mick, a Local rights activist on the perilous course, she discovered to see evidently, to speak her brain, and never to bow down. However the tragedies that contain scarred her life and finally led her to these frigid waters cannot eliminate her indomitable soul, even though the ghosts that talk with her in the night time alert her that the most detrimental may be yet to come. Easily one of the very most admired debut books to surface in many ten years, Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach was immediately greeted with general acclaim - called "gripping" by the San Diego Union-Tribune, "wonderful" by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and "glorious" by the World and Mail, getting nominations for numerous literary prizes before getting the Ethel Wilson Fiction Reward. Evocative, moving, haunting, and devastatingly funny, it can be an remarkable listen from a brilliant literary voice that must definitely be heard.
