Aboriginal Book Club

Starts: Thursday, June 23 7:00 PM

Ends: Thursday, June 23 7:00 PM

Lovereading? Love to talk about books you've read? Come join us for livelydiscussion of Indian Horse, writtenby Richard Wagamese, and winner of the Canada Reads People's Choiceaward and the First Nations Communities Reads program

Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clashand clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination backthrough the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys. ForSaul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residentialschool, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockeyplayer. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racismand the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement.

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Event Location

EPL Strathcona Branch
8331 104 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
T6E 4E9